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Shedding Light on a Quantum Black Box

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Alessandro Zavatta and Marco Bellini, Physics 6, 35 (2013) – Published March 25, 2013
Optical experiments let researchers fully characterize the quantum transformations corresponding to photon creation and annihilation operators.
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Big Shifts on an Atomic Scale

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Published March 14, 2013
Laser light scattered from a single atom undergoes large optical phase shifts that may be useful in imaging and quantum information transmission.
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Charting New Spectral Regions with Ghost Holography

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Published October 25, 2012
A quantum twist on digital holography offers improved imaging and the chance to reach new and difficult wavelength regions.
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Measuring the Shape of a Photon

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Physics 5, 86 (2012) – Published August 3, 2012
Researchers measure the complex “shape” of individual photons, which could lead to new ways of encoding information.