Now I'm thinking about this:
Posted on 05/04/2016 7:52:34 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Quantum information science and technology has emerged as a new paradigm for dramatically faster computation and secure communication in the 21st century. At the heart of any quantum system is the most basic building block, the quantum bit or qbit, which carries the quantum information that can be transferred and processed (this is the quantum analogue of the bit used in current information systems). The most promising carrier qbit for ultimately fast, long distance quantum information transfer is the photon, the quantum unit of light.
The challenge facing scientists is to produce artificial sources of photons for various quantum information tasks. One of the biggest challenges is the development of efficient, scalable photon sources that can be mounted on a chip and operate at room temperature. Most sources used in labs today have to be very cold (at the temperature of liquid Helium, about -270C), which requires large and expensive refrigerators. Many sources also emit photons in undefined directions, making efficient collection a hard problem.
Now, a team of scientists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has demonstrated an efficient and compact single photon source that can operate on a chip at ambient temperatures. Using tiny nanocrystals made of semiconducting materials, the scientists developed a method in which a single nanocrystal can be accurately positioned on top of a specially designed and carefully fabricated nano-antenna. ...
"This research paves a promising route for a high purity, high efficiency, on-chip single photon source operating at room temperature, a concept that can be extended to many types of quantum emitters. A highly directional single photon source could lead to a significant progress in producing compact, cheap, and efficient sources of quantum information bits for future quantum technological applications", said Prof. Ronen Rapaport
(Excerpt) Read more at rdmag.com ...
Isn't that that redundantly repetitive?
Light emitting diode?
That would be my reply as well.
Reading the article, they are looking for a source of a single photon at a time.
[[tiny nanocrystals
Isn’t that that redundantly repetitive?]]
No- but Teeny tiny itsy bitsy, eensy weensy nanoparticles would have been
Now I'm thinking about this:
lol i couldn’t think how the song went- i probably got it wrong a bit-
Well, that flies in the face of the Hiesenburg Uncertainty Principle, doesn’t it? It would be very difficult to impart a single atom a specific energy level.
Thanks BenLurkin.
Apparently there is nano and tiny nano. Guess I learned something today! /s
Hold on tight to your passwords and encryption schemes. It’s going to be a rough ride.
lol...thanks I needed a laugh!
I haven’t thought about that show in years and all the talk of nano brought it back.
likely this has something to do with the IBM announcement a couple of days ago.(I’m not a scientist but the timing seems may be more than coincident with the IBM announcement)
http://www.gizmag.com/quantum-processor-qubits-ibm-cloud/43180/
She blinded me with science.
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