Verdal on the cover of the new Scientific American

Vlatko Verdal, of [1] fame, wrote an article titled "Living in a Quantum World", which made the cover of this month's (June 2011) cover of Scientific American.

References
[1] Vedral, Vlatko. Introduction to Quantum Information Science. 1 ed. Oxford, Great Britain: Oxford University Press, 2006.

More D-Wave Claims

For those who have not seen it yet, D-Wave is making some new claims. I've been skeptical since 2007, and still feel the same way. I think Scott Aaronson described the situation well in his blog, as he usually does about D-Wave.

Information sharing at the quantum limit

Out of the Max Planck Institute yesterday: Information sharing at the quantum limit (A photon transfers its secrets onto a single atom).

UC Santa Barbara to get $7.5 million for quantum computing

UC Santa Barbara is getting $7.5 million for quantum computing research from the Defense Department. The work will be lead by Awschalom.