Quantum information processing with atoms and photons

C. Monroe ()
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C. Monroe: University of Michigan

Nature, 2002, vol. 416, issue 6877, 238-246

Abstract: Abstract Quantum information processors exploit the quantum features of superposition and entanglement for applications not possible in classical devices, offering the potential for significant improvements in the communication and processing of information. Experimental realization of large-scale quantum information processors remains a long-term vision, as the required nearly pure quantum behaviour is observed only in exotic hardware such as individual laser-cooled atoms and isolated photons. But recent theoretical and experimental advances suggest that cold atoms and individual photons may lead the way towards bigger and better quantum information processors, effectively building mesoscopic versions of 'Schrödinger's cat' from the bottom up.

Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1038/416238a

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