A UC Santa Barbara (UCSB) research team has made headway in the future of quantum information science; the physicists at the University of California (UC), who explore exactly how information science depends on quantum effects (e.g., electrical, optical and chemical properties of nanostructures) in physics, discovered that a variety of nanomechanical systems (i.e., fundamental mechanical properties of physical systems at the nanoscale) can now operate at the quantum limit.
The discovery of the Quantum Physics Research by UCSB Physicists shows there actually is a way to translate electrical quantum states to optical quantum; “the scientists were able generate coherent interactions between electrical signals, very high frequency mechanical vibrations, and optical signals,” as stated in the online edition of Nature Physics, a monthly, peer reviewed, scientific journal published by the Nature Publishing Group (NPG).
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