Researchers develop quantum-mechanical shell game
FEB 07, 2011
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.025034
Scientific Computing : Inspired by the popular confidence trick known as the “shell game,” researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara, have demonstrated the ability to hide and shuffle “quantum-mechanical peas"—in the form of microwave single photons—under and between three microwave resonators, or “quantized shells.” In a paper published in Nature Physics, UCSB researchers show the first demonstration of the coherent control of a multi-resonator architecture. That feat has been a holy grail among physicists studying photons at the quantum-mechanical level for more than a decade.
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