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JQI/UMD researchers have increased by five orders of magnitude the distance over which a highly stringent test of a key quantum-mechanical principle can be successfully conducted. In doing so, Chris Monroe and colleagues* validated a technique that could eventually lead to final resolution of a 70-year-old debate over the nature of physical reality that pitted Albert Einstein against Niels Bohr. ...

To scientists seeking a basis for future quantum information processing, there is no more urgent or vexing problem than delaying the onset of “decoherence” – the collapse of delicate, but essential, quantum states.

The ability to store and manipulate information of any kind requires a dependable medium with which to record data and perform operations. In a conventional computer, where ...

JQI’s distinctive commitment to integrating research and education courages multiple collaborations and flexible interactions among faculty, postdocs and students.

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland have developed a new optical method that can detect individual neutrons and record them over a range of intensities at least a hundred times greater than existing detectors. The new detector, described at the March Meeting of the American Physical Society* by Charles Clark, a ...