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This video is not the most entertaining as the speaker has a thick Germanic accent.  However the topic of generating a single photon is important for being able to do experimental quantum physics. 

Summary

In recent years there has been increasing interest in systems capable to generate photon fields containing a preset number of photons. This has chiefly arisen from applications for which single photons are a necessary requirement, such as secure quantum communication and quantum cryptography. Photon number states or Fock states are also useful for generating multiple atom entanglements in strongly coupled systems such as the micromaser. The generated field and the pumping atoms are in an entangled state, this entanglement can be transferred by the field to subsequent atoms, leading to applications such as basic quantum logic gates. For our experiments we employ a micromaser having a cavity Q of 4 Ã 1010 corresponding to a photon lifetime of 0.3s which is the largest ever achieved in this type of experiments. A source of single photons or, more generally, arbitrary Fock states is also a useful tool for further investigations of atomfield interaction. It can be used to obtain the reconstruction of purely quantum states of the radiation field as represented by the Fock states. Recently we succeeded to combine an ion trap with an optical cavity. With this system also single photons in the visible spectral region can be produced on demand.«

Quantum Information Science: A Quantum Computer Revolution

Viewing notes

• Quantum Zeno Effect

This video shot in 1980 is the beginning of what later because "Great Railway Journeys" with Michael Palin hosting.   This first video is about the history of the train system in Great Britain and is probably the most authentic piece on the topic by Palin because he is working off material in his early life when he was a train fanatic.  One can not help having some nostalgia for 1980 when watching this. 

Professor of African American studies?  What the heck do you do with a degree in African American studies?  It seems to me the reason why the United States has the economic problems that it does is that too many people are studying the equivalent of African American studies.   Whether it be basket weaving or going to college on a sports scholarship you are not likely to get out of school and be a big producer of money velocity.

Indeed I feel this is a bad omen for Mr Obama’s term as presidency.  Let us compare this with who would speak if I was being inaugurated.  I can think of many people much more interesting than someone who studied how to teach others to become wards of the state.  How about Leon Lederman Nobel laureate for physics ?   Any engineer of any type would be a welcome message to the people.  My message would be get studying because if you do not create gross national product then you are nothing.  Because it is true.

The tide of history is not pushed by the diversionary figures of entertainment or agitprop.  The tides of history are driven by technical people and by great economic figures of industry.  If you are not one of these you are a follower no matter how you try to be otherwise.

Charming to say the least. 

Feryal Özel is an Turkish astrophysicist and athlete born in Istanbul on 27th of May 1975. Turkey, specializing in the physics of compact objects and high energy astral phenomena, having worked especially in the field of neutron stars and magnetars. She currently works as Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow assistant professor at the University of Arizona in Tucson, in both the Physics and Astronomy departments. She has been a guest of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey^.

 Education

• 1996 – B.S. in Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, New York City
• 1997 – M.S. in Physics, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen
• 2002 – Ph.D. in Astrophysics, Harvard University, Cambridge

 Honors and Awards

• Turkish Scientific and Tech. Research Foundation Visiting Scholar Fellowship 2007
• Hubble Postdoctoral Fellowship 2002-2005
• Distinguished Scholar Award, Daughters of Ataturk Foundation 2003
• Keck Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Study 2002
• Van Vleck Fellowship, Harvard University 1999
• Kostrup Prize, Niels Bohr Institute 1997
• Niels Bohr Institute Graduate Fellowship 1996-1997
• Applied Mathematics Faculty Award, Columbia University 1996
• Fu Foundation Scholarship, Columbia University 1994-1996
• CERN Research Fellowship 1995
• Turkish Health and Education Foundation Scholarship 1992-1994

External links

• "Big Ideas" Website (Resume)
• Personal webpage at the University of Arizona
• Nature Magazine online service
• University of Arizona News
• List of published articles according to IOP Publishing

Graph Theory and Its Engineering Applications  By Wai-Kai Chen

For you environMENTAL cases you can build your own wind generator.  You can see all the information you need here: www.otherpower.com/otherpower_wind.html

Very interesting and fun designs.  What’s stopping you liberals?  The earth is warming!! How can you NOT build one of these? 

The nice thing about this set of likely Bush – Haters is that at least they appear to be walking the walk instead of just telling me what I ought to do.  And they appear to be scientifically truthful…. it’s not likely to be cheap or easy or cost effective if you already have grid power.

The engineer in me wishes he had time and space to build one.

I am currently researching if D Wave has a public interface where one can submit jobs to one of their quantum computers.  I have not found if they have yet but I have found one of the founders blog here:  http://dwave.wordpress.com/

Seems to be throwing one machine open to the public would be a good idea.  Some jackass somewhere will use it for something it was totally not meant for and it will turn out to be the best use for it.   Or maybe I am just saying this because I want a chance to have a few runs on it.

UpDate( 08-13-2008): D-Wave has a mocked up system with classical solvers where you can become familiar with their user interface.  You can sign up here: sandbox.dwavesys.com/orionui/

Good presentation on adiabatic quantum computation.    In information theory class I learned that by using the Laplacian form and maximizing entropy you can find the description of physical systems.  The adiabatic minimization will work well in these scenario.