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Old 05-06-2013, 11:08 PM
 
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By coupling quantum light sources with quantum information squeezed through nano-scale triangular holes strategically etched into a thin layer of silver, Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have demonstrated a path to sensors and information processing up to 10 times better than what was previously possible with plasmonics. The technology moves the field of plasmonics, dubbed "light on a wire," to a level previously only imagined, said Raphael Pooser, co-author of a Physical Review Letters paper (http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v110/i15/e156802) that details the discovery. "We transferred multiple quantum bits into the plasmons whereas in the past only one at a time had been done, and it was done with only a single photon at a time while we used millions," said Pooser, a member of ORNL's Quantum Information Science Group. [Contact: Ron Walli; 865.576.0226; wallira@ornl.gov]
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Old 05-07-2013, 08:34 AM
 
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Cool! Sooner or later a supercomputer will be embedded in your fingernail.

I keep trying to figure out when any of these great leaps in data storage will reach us. It seems like there are continuing discoveries, but nothing gets past the laboratory.
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