Friday, October 25, 2013

The leviton





The team of scientists named the single electron a leviton, in honour of physicist Leonid Levitov. It is hoped it will be possible to scale up the circuit so larger structures that could carry quantum information can be built. The technique could also be applied to cold atomic gases, leading to the possibility of atomic levitons.


Read more: http://bit.ly/1cgMZuY
Paper: http://bit.ly/1a4ay2e

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