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Don't blink! Why quantum dots suffer from 'fluorescence intermittency' and may be trouble for potential quantum Internet

Posted: 22 May 2014 08:58 AM PDT

Researchers have found that a particular species of quantum dots that weren't commonly thought to blink, do. So what? Well, although the blinks are very short -- nanoseconds to milliseconds -- even brief fluctuations like these could signal trouble for using quantum dots in a quantum computer or between nodes of a future quantum Internet.