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Nature Physics 2, 801 - 802 (2006)
doi:10.1038/nphys469

Subject Categories: Quantum physics | Atomic and molecular physics | Information theory and computation

Quantum networks: When superatoms talk photons

Vladan Vuletic1

  1. Vladan Vuletic is in the Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA. e-mail: vuletic@mit.edu


Quantum networks could permit secure communication over large distances and, eventually, quantum computing with photons. One of the basic building blocks has now been put in place.

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