Europe gets together to harness quantum physics

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Chemistry, Physics and Materials Sciences  Wed, 06/04/2008 - 22:00

(European Science Foundation) The long cherished goal of applying the strange properties of quantum mechanics to the macroscopic world we inhabit has been brought closer by a series of recent developments.

The exciting progress was made in the important field of quantum optics and discussed recently at a high level conference organised by the European Science Foundation in collaboration with the Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung in Österreich and the Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck.

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