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Physicists build first single-photon router

Wed, 2012-03-21 06:53 - Lukas Hanschke
Date: 
2011-08-22
Author(s): 

Io-Chun Hoi

Conference/Workshop/Place: 
article at PhysOrg.com
Link: 

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-physicists-single-photon-router.html

By demonstrating that an artificial atom embedded in a transmission line can route a single photon from an input port to one of two output ports, physicists have built the first router working at the single-photon level. The single-photon router could one day serve as a quantum node in a quantum information network, in which it could provide basic processing and routing of data.