Physicists Store, Retrieve a "Squeezed Vacuum"

An anonymous reader sends us to the site of Science Magazine for news that will interest those who have followed experiments to slow and stop light. Research groups in Canada and Japan have succeeded separately in storing a special kind of vacuum — a "squeezed vacuum" — in a puff of gas and then retrieving it a split second later. Such experiments might lead to advances in quantum encryption. At the very least they will help to illuminate the boundary between quantum and classical realms.

Comments

I always struggle to slow at the stop light

[EmbeddedJanitor]

but I thought it was my brakes.

I also have to squeeze my vacuum

[Blakey Rat]

Too much junk in my hall closet.

Re:There is no bound(a)ry

[Anonymous Coward]

Dude, they are completely different. On one hand you have people like Heisenberg and Schrödinger, on the other hand you have people like Bach and Beethoven.

Store a vacuum?

[PFI_Optix]

I keep mine in the hall closet. What's the big deal?

Hard to measure?

[martyb]

Great line from the article:

Proving that the squeezed vacuum survived its confinement is tricky, as it's hard to measure nothing.

Hmmm. Hey! Maybe they should ask Frank Sinatra? :)

Re:There is no bound(a)ry

[gardyloo]

Your analogy is pretty baroque.

There is a boundry

[STrinity]

It's beyond that door, where light and shadow meet in a place we call The Twilight Zone. The vacuum's in the corner, with a Talking Tina and broken stopwatch on top.

Re:There is no bound(a)ry

[An ominous Cow art]

Enough, for Tissimo's sake!