Electron Spin

They're working on manipulating electron spin at the University of Southampton. Notable, because they could be used in physical implementation of quantum computers.

Position-Based Quantum Cryptography

Here's an interesting paper: Position-Based Quantum Cryptography by Nishanth Chandran, Serge Fehr, Ran Gelles, Vipul Goyal, and Rafail Ostrovsky.You can get the paper here on arXiv and there is a good popular science summary here on Technology Review. Quantum cryptography has some great applications, adding in location makes it even more so.

Quantum Key Distribution: 1 megabit/sec, 50 km

At Toshiba they've done quantum key distribution at 1 megabit a second over 50 km.