A quote for the evening ( Read more... )

me: "The quantum information is not for nom!!!"
Z: *nom nom nom nom*

The GaTech student chapter of the IEEE runs a faculty presentation series gears towards ECE students, where faculty come and talk about their research. I've already given several talks in this series over the years on topics that I know stuff about, so I figured I should start doing some talks in which I'm mostly making stuff up. Quantum computing ( Read more... )

To pass the time during nighttime feedings, Z and I have been watching lectures on quantum computing on YouTube. The Google Tech Talk series (in parts 1, 2, which includes some interesting results by D-wave, and 3) was particularly fascinating. Apparently the antioxident effect of green tea arises form quantum tunneling; also, the speaker in the ( Read more... )

Only in quantum physics do you get sentences like this: "The resolution of this paradox requires an understanding that local realism can be violated in quantum mechanics." (from Optics & Photonics news, March 2008, p. 28)

I can see it as a new complaint among young siblings. "Mom, she's violating my local realism!"

"DARPA's Strategic Technology Office (STO) is soliciting proposals the Quantum Sensors Program (QSP). The objective of QSP is to develop practical sensors operating outside of a controlled laboratory environment that exploit non-classical photon states (e.g. entangled, squeezed, or cat) to surpass classical sensor resolution ( Read more... )