{"id":193,"date":"2008-03-09T21:13:36","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T05:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cubist.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/2008\/03\/09\/current-event-physicists-successfully-store-and-retrieve-nothing\/"},"modified":"2008-03-19T09:45:27","modified_gmt":"2008-03-19T17:45:27","slug":"current-event-physicists-successfully-store-and-retrieve-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secblog.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/2008\/03\/09\/current-event-physicists-successfully-store-and-retrieve-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"Current Event: Physicists Successfully Store and Retrieve Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the satirical title, teams of Physicists from the U. of Calgary and the Tokyo Institute of Technology recently published <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/0709.2258\">papers<\/a> (and <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/0709.1785\">here<\/a>) detailing their feat of storing a &#8216;squeezed vacuum&#8217; by apparently reducing the amplitude of a quantum-mechanically interpreted EM wave to zero.  <a href=\"http:\/\/sciencenow.sciencemag.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/2008\/229\/1\">ScienceNow<\/a> has a more clear detailing (with pictures) than I seem to be able to give, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/science.slashdot.org\/science\/08\/03\/09\/1740246.shtml\">\/.<\/a> article may provide further illumination.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers suggest that this technique may be able to be used to facilitate a more secure transmission of secret keys between end hosts in the years to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the satirical title, teams of Physicists from the U. of Calgary and the Tokyo Institute of Technology recently published papers (and here) detailing their feat of storing a &#8216;squeezed vacuum&#8217; by apparently reducing the amplitude of a quantum-mechanically interpreted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secblog.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/2008\/03\/09\/current-event-physicists-successfully-store-and-retrieve-nothing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[207,131],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","tag-current-events","tag-quantum-mechanics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secblog.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secblog.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secblog.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secblog.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secblog.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/secblog.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secblog.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secblog.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secblog.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}