By Ed Williams and Wufei Yu, Searchlight New Mexico |
December 23, 2020
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Richard Yue, one of the workers in Bryan Peng s New Mexico workforce, setting up greenhouses at the Big Buddha Farms in Oklahoma
MONTEREY PARK, Calif. Irving Lin, a jovial entrepreneur in his late 60’s, wanted to share a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, a near-miraculous way out of the economic devastation wrought on Southern California’s Chinese communities by the pandemic: the gift of marijuana.
“We are making a fortune in Oklahoma, and you can too,” Lin, speaking in Mandarin, told a crowd of 30 potential investors gathered for a PowerPoint presentation at a Chinese cultural center on Dec. 5. The return on investment is as high as 1,200 percent, Lin explained eagerly. Finance one greenhouse, and you’ll walk away with $300,000. Three greenhouses will make you a millionaire.
Ultrabright Photons for Single-Chip Quantum Devices
December 22, 2020•
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For quantum technologies that encode and transmit information using pairs of photons, brighter is better. But integrating a suitably bright source of quantum photons into a solid-state chip remains a challenge. The best material platforms for doing that don’t live up to their theoretical potential, hindered by imperfections that lead to phase mismatching and leaked light. Now, Zhaohui Ma and Jia-Yang Chen, at Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey, and colleagues have created an ultrabright photon source with unprecedented efficiency by modifying the design of a recently developed nanophotonic device [1]. The researchers incorporated their photon source into a quantum circuit that is compatible with other optical components, paving the way for high-speed, reconfigurable quantum devices.
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With pandemic-related disruptions now in their 10th month without an end date in sight, state lawmakers last weeks endorsed two packages of bills addressing the mental health on students both in K-12 schools and college.
Assembly Majority Leader Louis Greenwald, D-Camden said there’s never been a greater need for this type of legislation, as a bad problem has been made worse by school closures and remote learning.
“While we are still learning about the ways in which the virus can affect our body, its impact on mental health is pushing us into another crisis, the mental health crisis, and it’s hitting our children the hardest,” Greenwald said.
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Home > Press > Stevens creates entangled photons 100 times more efficiently than previously possible: Ultra-bright photon source brings scalable quantum photonics within reach
Yuping Huang and his colleagues at Stevens Institute of Technology demonstrated a quantum circuit that can readily be integrated with other optical components, paving the way for high-speed, reconfigurable, and multifaceted quantum devices.
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Super-fast quantum computers and communication devices could revolutionize countless aspects of our lives but first, researchers need a fast, efficient source of the entangled pairs of photons such systems use to transmit and manipulate information. Researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology have done just that, not only creating a chip-based photon source 100 times more efficient that previously possible, but bringing massive quantum device integration within reach.