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...Marty McFly and his DeLorean may not be such a stretch after all. In his new book, The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time and the Texture of Reality, theoretical physicist Brian Greene ’84 suggests that time travel and teleportation are well within the realms of quantum mechanics, a conceptual framework of physics that emerged in the 1930s...
...years later, David F. Phillips, an associate of the Harvard College Observatory at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; Ronald L. Walsworth, another associate; and Lukin published a study describing how the team of researchers captured a “quantum fingerprint,” or holographic imprint, of a pulse of light in a super-cooled gaseous medium...
...Quantum Optics group was able to “freeze” the photons themselves in a hot gas of rubidium atoms...
However, André said, “this prospect of quantum computers might be in the very distant future...
...Quantum Optics group received funding for their research from the National Science Foundation, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Office of Naval Research...