CQT Highlight http://www.quantumlah.org/highlight/ Highlights of CQT activities en-us Centre for Quantum Technologies Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 SGT http://www.quantumlah.org/rss-feed.php 360 http://www.quantumlah.org/img/CQT_Logo.rss.png CQT Highlight http://www.quantumlah.org/highlight/ 14429 jenny@quantumlah.org webmaster@quantumlah.org New principle may help explain why nature is quantum http://www.quantumlah.org/highlight/130514_discrete_qubit.php Principle proposed by CQT's Stephanie Wehner and Corsin Pfister rules out various alternative theories of nature, including the possibility that state space is discrete. ]]> Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 SGT http://www.quantumlah.org/highlight/130514_discrete_qubit.php Theorists see proposal for error-tolerant quantum gates realised http://www.quantumlah.org/highlight/130506_holonomic.php Experiments described in Nature and Physical Review Letters demonstrate the 'non-adiabatic holonomic quantum gates' recently proposed by CQT theorists and their collaborators.]]> Mon, 06 May 2013 00:00:00 SGT http://www.quantumlah.org/highlight/130506_holonomic.php Protocol makes noisy networks competitive for scalable quantum computing http://www.quantumlah.org/highlight/130424_noisy_networks.php Researchers in Singapore and the UK propose a scheme to strengthen an error-correcting toric topological code. ]]> Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:00:00 SGT http://www.quantumlah.org/highlight/130424_noisy_networks.php Uncertainty avoids perpetual motion machines http://www.quantumlah.org/highlight/130410_perpetual_motion.php CQT researchers show that a violation of the quantum uncertainty principle implies a violation of the second law of thermodynamics.]]> Wed, 10 Apr 2013 00:00:00 SGT http://www.quantumlah.org/highlight/130410_perpetual_motion.php CQT to participate in International Space Apps Challenge http://www.quantumlah.org/highlight/130410_space_apps.php Singapore's debut in the global event will feature a local challenge from CQT PI Alexander Ling.]]> Tue, 09 Apr 2013 00:00:00 SGT http://www.quantumlah.org/highlight/130410_space_apps.php