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Quantum optics

Quantum optics

Key to the quantum industry

01 Mar 2007

Technology that exploits the strange rules of quantum mechanics to guarantee the security of encrypted messages is the first product of a new quantum-information industry to reach the market, as Andrew Shields and Zhiliang Yuan explain

Key to the quantum industry
As theories go, quantum mechanics has certainly been successful. Despite its many counterintuitive p

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Andrew Shields is group leader of the quantum-information group at Toshiba Research Europe in Cambridge, UK, and Zhiliang Yuan is a senior research scientist at Toshiba Research Europe
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