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Why Build a Quantum Transducer?

ByBen Brubaker June 23, 2022July 7, 2022

A deep dive into the motivation for behind my postdoc research. What do microwaves and lasers have to do with communication? And what changes when I insist on repeating the word “quantum” twice in every sentence?

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Measuring in Reflection is a blog about how physicists make sense of the world (and occasionally other things). You can read more about me here, and more about the premise of the blog  here.

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