A note from Ivan Deutsch, Secretary-Treasurer of the APS GQI topical group about the winners of the best student paper awards:
We are pleased to announce the Best Student Paper awards for the 2009 APS March Meeting. For the best experimental paper, the winner isEric Lucero, UCSB
for his paper J17.1, "High fidelity gates in Josephson phase qubits".
For the best theoretical paper, the winner is
Lev Bishop, Yale University
for his paper V17.9, "Towards proving non-classicality with a 3-qubit GHZ state in circuit QED".
Congratulations to the future Doctors Lucero and Bishop!
More like this
At In These Times, reporter Joseph Sorrentino writes about the heartbreaking plight of uranium miners and millers as well as the history of uranium mining oversight and regulation.
The day after the Tony Awards honored excellence in Broadway theater, the NIOSH Science Blog posted information about some of the theatrical hazards and precautions that may not be visible to audiences. Gregory A.
The other day, I wanted to hear the seasonally-appropriate Hold Steady song "How a Resurrection Really Feels" ("She crashed into the Easter Mass, with her hair done up in broken glass, She was limping left on broken heels and she said 'Father, can I tell your congregation how a resurrection reall
This is a great month for Physiology! Several of the local chapters of the American Physiological Society (APS) are having their annual meetings.
By synchronicity, as you were appreciating Lev Bishop on "Towards proving non-classicality with a 3-qubit GHZ state in circuit QED" I was just involved in discussion relating GHZ and Borromean Entanglement. It would be cool if these threads were connected:
http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2009/03/the_borromean_link_configur…
GHZ = Borromean Entanglement; Re: The Borromean Link Configuration
In quantum information theory, a GHZ Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger state is a certain type of entangled quantum state which involves at least three subsystems (particles), no two of which are entangled with each other. It was first studied by D. Greenberger, M.A. Horne and Anton Zeilinger in 1989; who subsequently (together with A. Shimony, upon a suggestion by N. D. Mermin) applied their arguments to certain measurements involving three observers. They have noticed the extremely non-classical properties of the state.
N. David Mermin, Quantum mysteries revisited, Am. J. Phys. 58 (8), 731 (1990)