From Scientists, a Little Light Music. / Tim Appenzeller.
by Appenzeller, Tim; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2002Article 68Science. Publisher: U.S. News & World Report (Syndicate), 2001ISSN: 1522-3264;.Subject(s): Discoveries in science | Light -- Experiments | Light -- Speed | Physics -- Research | Quantum computersDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Earlier this year [2001], two groups of scientists reported that they had slowed light to a complete stop and frozen it in place for up to a thousandth of a second, an eternity to a light beam....Researchers are taming light partly for the sheer challenge and partly because the ability to generate light as single photons, snare it, and store it could someday enable them to build computers millions of times faster than today's." (U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT) This article investigates how researchers are manipulating light and speculates on the possibility of creating a quantum computer with this new capability.
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Originally Published: From Scientists, a Little Light Music, March 19, 2001; pp. 47.
"Earlier this year [2001], two groups of scientists reported that they had slowed light to a complete stop and frozen it in place for up to a thousandth of a second, an eternity to a light beam....Researchers are taming light partly for the sheer challenge and partly because the ability to generate light as single photons, snare it, and store it could someday enable them to build computers millions of times faster than today's." (U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT) This article investigates how researchers are manipulating light and speculates on the possibility of creating a quantum computer with this new capability.
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