Storing Photons In a Solid State Device 68
bondisthebest writes in with a report from IEEE Spectrum: "Physicists in Switzerland, led by Nicolas Gisin of the University of Geneva, reported last week in Nature that they have made a solid-state device capable of storing photons for as long as 1 microsecond. The invention will aid in the development of light-based quantum-cryptography networks, which are theoretically impervious to hacking but are currently limited in range to a few dozen kilometers, primarily because of a lack of a suitable way to store the quantum state of photons."
Photons, Toddlers, and Tonguetwisters (Score:5, Funny)
From TFA: What they did was "find a way to trap a photon in a collection of 10 million neodymium atoms embedded in an yttrium orthovanadate crystal". Now say that 10 times fast.
Schrödinger called... (Score:5, Funny)
...he said your server was either hacked or it wasn't.
I'm Gonna Be Rich! (Score:5, Funny)
I just need to be the first to patent two mirrors facing each other...
Re:I'm Gonna Be Rich! (Score:4, Funny)
Here's my initial design blue prints:
Active Photon Refection and Recapture Matrix [old-wizard.com]
Re:Just get a small black hole (Score:2, Funny)
Easy. Just get a small black hole. Shoot the photons around the gravity well. They'll last almost forever.
No problem, we should have the LHC back online this year. :)