Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Caltech Scientists Film Photons With Electrons

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the tiny-pictures dept.

al0ha writes "Techniques recently invented by researchers at the California Institute of Technology which allow the real-time, real-space visualization of fleeting changes in the structure of nanoscale matter have been used to image the evanescent electrical fields produced by the interaction of electrons and photons, and to track changes in atomic-scale structures."

5 of 46 comments (clear)

  1. This is what quantum computing needs. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is actually quite applicable to quantum computing. We are getting to the point where we can define the qubits, but have trouble measuring the photon emissions that indicate the result of the computation. This will allow us to finally measure what amounts to the result of the quantum calculation. It's been a long time in coming, but this will finally allow us to make some significant strides towards commercializing quantum computing.

  2. Let me be the first to say... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I didn't see that coming.

    (C'mon! It's funny! Photons! Femtoseconds! Ahh.. fergetaboutit.)

  3. Re:Videos or it didn't happen! by VanGarrett · · Score: 5, Funny

    Am I just not looking hard enough?

    Try squinting. It's all so very small scale.

    --
    Learning about brewing beer, by brewing beer.
  4. WTF? by oldhack · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's Friday, I'm drunk, but what the FUCK?! I can't grasp..

    Fuck. CalTech. Guess them nerds do know what they're doing.

    I met nerds from CalTech and MIT. MIT nerds got nothing on CalTech nerds. When it comes to physics, I'd go with CalTech nerds. p. The nerd from my Ivy League school just don't measure up, including me...

    --
    Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.
    1. Re:WTF? by oldhack · · Score: 5, Funny

      Fuck you mods. Seriously. Ivy League physics depts don't measure up to CalTech and MIT.

      Ok, that probably is irrelevant to this story, but fuck, when did relevancy ever mattered here?

      That's right. Fuck you. Fuck all'o you. I'm screwing a married theatre major on the side.

      OK. Screw you losers.

      --
      Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.