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...latest experiment, which could pave the way for super-fast quantum computing, successfully brought light to a complete stop for half a millisecond. The normal speed of light is 186,000 miles per second...
...breakthroughs will be published in Nature next week and in Physical Review Letters on Jan. 29. Technology based on the discovery could be used in the future to make super-fast quantum computers or to send messages that are completely secure from hackers...
...idea of quantum information is in its infancy," said David F. Phillips, an associate of the Harvard College Observatory at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and co-author of one of one of the studies. "We hope for wonderful things. Our imagination hasn't figured out what the possibilities...
Phillips cautioned, however, that scientists are still "a long way" from using the discovery for practical applications such as quantum computing...
...That "quantum fingerprint" was then converted back into light by again shining a laser on them. Usually, any information about light is destroyed when its photons are absorbed by atoms. In these studies, the information was preserved...