Monday, September 30, 2013

World's First Quantum Metamaterial Unveiled | MIT Technology Review

World's First Quantum Metamaterial Unveiled | MIT Technology Review: the split-ring resonators introduced losses because of their internal resistance...

a solution to this problem: use superconducting resonators...

The problem in the past is that physicists had arranged the circuits in series so that the combined state must be a superposition of the states of all the circuits. So if a single circuit was out of kilter, the entire experiment failed.

Macha and co got around this by embedding the quantum circuits inside a microwave resonator–a chamber about a wavelength long in which the microwaves become trapped.

To interact with a photon, each quantum circuit need only couple with the resonator itself and its nearest neighbours.

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