Tricks with a single photon
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It has been possible to devise an experiment in which a single photon stored in a microcavity produces an optical force capable of trapping an atom. This and related research can be seen as a new era of cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED). Cavity QED presents possibilities to construct quantum information processors and to link these devices in an optical quantum network. Cavity QED can be seen as a natural environment for the interface between atoms and photons in the form of optical interconnects.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2000
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Something from nothing
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The radiation field in quantum electrodynamics is described to iillustrate its effect on electromagnetic fluctuations that occur in a vacuum. This phenomenon is the subject of a new experiment being conducted at Yale University. The new study demonstrates the Casimir force which is a measure of the interaction between an atom and a conducting surface i a vacuum. Measuremnts obtained from this new study coincides with the observations made in previous experiments.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1993
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A box for a single photon
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A group at the Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS) in Paris have used the experimental techniques of cavity quantum electrodynamics (cavity QED) to confine a microwave field within a niobium cavity, which is then cooled by liquid helium so that it becomes supraconducting. The experiment is likely to encourage further exploration into writing in and reading out of information encoded in quantum objects.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1999
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