Quantum Communication Award to Wineland and Monroe
Quantum Communication Award Goes to Wineland and Monroe
of the Physics Laboratory
Dave Wineland and Chris Monroe of PL's Time and Frequency Division in Boulder
recently shared the 2000 International Quantum Communication Award with
Paul Benioff of Argonne National Laboratory. The award, presented at the Fifth
International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement, and Computing
held in Capri, Italy, was for their pioneering contributions to the development
of quantum processing devices. Wineland and Monroe have been studying the
application of trapped ions to the problem of quantum logic, and recently
demonstrated the entanglement of four ions using techniques that appear to be
scalable to entanglement of still larger numbers of ions. This work, the first
to demonstrate on-demand entanglement of ions, has added substantially to the
growing excitement in this field.
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