Wednesday, May 26, 2010

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.

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

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.