Sunday 26 February 2012

MIT quantum

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/quantum-detect-0911.html

"The new findings, being reported this week in the journal Science, are purely theoretical, but Lloyd says that laboratory experiments have already proven the feasibility of both the light sources and the detectors needed for such a quantum-based photodetection system, so he anticipates that within a year it should be possible to build a laboratory-scale system to demonstrate the new concept.

"It should be possible to have at least a proof-of-principle demonstration within six months to a year," Lloyd said.

For example, military applications could include improved night-vision systems, which send out beams of infrared light--invisible to the naked eye--to sweep across a scene, and then use an infrared detector to reconstruct an image from the light that is reflected back. A more efficient system, using the quantum-entanglement effect, would make it much more difficult for an adversary to detect the fact that such a system was being used, because there would be so much less infrared light needed to provide the illumination."


http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=human-eyes-entanglement
Spooky Eyes: Using Human Volunteers to Witness Quantum Entanglement
Quantum physicists have a novel plan for an experiment that uses the human eye to detect "spooky action at a distance"

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