Photographs of Boffins
Is there some unwritten rule that says people in white coats should always be lit as if on the set of a Frankenstein movie?
The lifetime of quantum memories – a crucial component of practical quantum computing and communications – is typically less than a second. Now, work led by the Australian National University has turned up quantum states that last as long as six hours. That “coherence time” – how long an entangled state can be preserved – is …
Starting to sound a bit like some of the ideas in Charles Stross' Singularity Sky/Iron Sunrise series, if I recall correctly. I think the idea was that you could have faster than light communiciation (via entangled particles) but only once a set of pre-entangled particles had been delivered to you at (sub)light speed. Or something like that.