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BOULDER, Colo.—An atomic clock that uses an aluminum atom to apply the logic of computers to the peculiarities of the quantum world now rivals the world's most
Quantum cryptography is potentially the most secure method of sending encrypted information, but does it have a speed limit? According to a new paper by
The White House has announced that two researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are among the 56 recipients of the 2005
Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have used charged atoms (ions) to demonstrate a quantum physics version of computer
Sensors that detect and count single photons, the smallest quantities of light, with 88 percent efficiency have been demonstrated by physicists at the National
Boulder, Colo.— A full-scale quantum computer could produce reliable results even if its components performed no better than today's best first-generation
A practical method for automatically correcting data-handling errors in quantum computers has been developed and demonstrated by physicists at the National
Physicists at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated "teleportation" by transferring key properties
A team of researchers at JILA, a joint institute of the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of
The trouble with qubits is they don't always behave. Scientists are, however, learning to control these weird "quantum bits," particles that someday may store
Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Michigan have taken a significant
In 1996, researchers at the Boulder, Colo., laboratories of the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology confirmed the belief that a