NIST Advances Single Photon Management for Quantum Computers
Thursday, January 20, 2011 - 09:30
in Physics & Chemistry
The quantum computers of tomorrow might use photons, or particles of light, to move around the data they need to make calculations, but photons are tricky to work with. Two new papers by NIST researchers point to ways to build reliable sources of single photons for use in photon-based quantum computers.