One problem with ion traps qubits has been the heating of the motional degrees of the trapped ions, due mostly to fluctuating potentials on the trap electrodes. The electrode potential goes yee-yaw and the ion goes wee-wah, heating up and thus ruining the motional degree of freedom of the ion. One idea has been that [...]
Sweet, just in time for my trip to the Allerton conference in Illinois, a partial lift on the ban on liquids (also known as the “Coke kills” rules) in carry-on luggage. Have to put it in a nice little baggie, though. Good thing because I was just going to buy and ditch my new liquids [...]
Ian Durham has moved his blog to Quantum Moxie. The reason: Well, for those of you (all two of you) who read The New American Whig, my former blog, I have decided to reduce the politics and ramp up the quantum mechanics and physics in general (which is my everyday passion). Politics just gets depressing [...]
Michael Bremner (aka quantumbiodiscs), writing on behalf of the organizing committee, informs me about IQING 5 to be held in Innsbruck in April: IQING 5 (first announcement): IQING 5 (Informal Quantum INformation Gathering), will be held on April 11 – 14 2007 in Innsbruck, Austria. Like the previous incarnations of the IQING, IQING 5 is [...]
Pawel Wocjan (who just started on the faculty at the University of Central Florida, congrats!) emails me about a workshop he is helping organize. Florida in November sounds pretty warm! Call for participation: I2Lab Workshop ‘Frontiers in Quantum and Biological Information Processing’ in Orlando, November 16-17, 2006 http://i2lab.ucf.edu/News/Workshops.html The Workshop ‘Frontiers in Quantum and Biological [...]
Steve sends me a link to a Seed magazine article about The Poker Playing Physicist. No word on whether he will continue in poker or retire to a life of physics research.
Forget the war over customers finding creative ways to use milk at Starbucks. The real story here in Washington and Oregon coffeeland is that the mermaid’s hair has been moved back in Starbuck’s logo. And I can report that, indeed, children all over Seattle are now running around crazied. The logo appears to have fried [...]
I just finished reading Lee Smolin’s The Trouble with Physics. No, I’m not going to review it. What do you think I want the Quantum Pontiff to turn into a gigantic ball of flaming flamable flame wars? (The publisher actually was supposed to send me a copy and may still, but with my moving it [...]
Quantum Works. QuantumWorks is a new, NSERC-funded Innovation Platform that links Canadian researchers with industrial and government agency partners to lead Canada into the next technological revolution – that of Quantum Information. Building on established national expertise in quantum cryptography, quantum algorithms and quantum information processing devices, QuantumWorks research programs will provide “made in Canada” [...]
Entanglement in two superconducting qubits from UCSB: “Measurement of the Entanglement of Two Superconducting Qubits via State Tomography” Matthias Steffen, M. Ansmann, Radoslaw C. Bialczak, N. Katz, Erik Lucero, R. McDermott, Matthew Neeley, E. M. Weig, A. N. Cleland, and John M. Martinis, Science 313, 1423 (paper here, Science magazine summary here, physics web article [...]
