{"id":57,"date":"2010-07-21T11:25:30","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T11:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/2010\/07\/21\/physics_research_in_a_mccook_lab_on_campus\/"},"modified":"2010-07-21T11:25:30","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T11:25:30","slug":"physics_research_in_a_mccook_lab_on_campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/2010\/07\/21\/physics_research_in_a_mccook_lab_on_campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Physics Research in a McCook Lab on Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In the above photo, Matt Bermudez ’09 works with physics professor David Branning<\/a> to collect a sample of 17 million polarization measurements on single photons. Each photon was prepared in a quantum superposition state of Horizontal (H) and Vertical (V) polarization, and then measured, with a polarizer and detectors, to be either H- or V-polarized. The sequence of H-V outcomes, which is predicted to be random by quantum mechanics, were then subjected to fifteen tests developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for computer-based random-number generators. Branning is now working on a follow-up to this project with other students.  The results will be published in the September issue of the Journal of the Optical Society of America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the above photo, Matt Bermudez ’09 works with physics professor David Branning to collect a sample of 17 million polarization measurements on single photons. Each photon was prepared in a quantum superposition state of Horizontal (H) and Vertical (V) polarization, and then measured, with a polarizer and detectors, to be either H- or V-polarized. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}