Quantum Cloaking Makes Molecules Invisible

KentuckyFC writes "An international team of physicists has applied the ideas of cloaking to the quantum world and worked out how to hide quantum objects such as molecules. In the quantum world, seeing is equivalent to detecting a quantum object. In the case of molecules, that means looking for the terahertz radiation they produce when they vibrate (abstract). By designing a 'quantum corral,' an elliptical nanostructures that absorbs terahertz waves at a precise frequency, the team says it is possible to hide molecules that emit at exactly that frequency. They say their quantum corral would be ideally suited to detecting molecules of specific species while ignoring others. And that may mean a new generation of molecular detectors on the horizon."

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F*** Slashdot, i'm going to Digg. At least Diggers are openly idiots and not pontificating armchair pseudo-intellectuals.

Well I think you may be thinking the right way '..i'm going to Digg.... Diggers are openly idiots' but, even so, I'm sure that they may not want you.

Even idiots have some intelligence. So you are only 50% there, the idiot.