SPECIAL REPORT: Defense Community Slow to Grasp Potential of Quantum-Based Tech
3/13/2019
By Stew Magnuson
CHICAGO — Four stories underground — encased in several feet of concrete — is the University of Chicago’s new nanofabrication facility, where researchers apply the principles of quantum physics to real-world problems and technologies.
A small cadre of faculty and graduate students in a clean room bathed in yellow light wear protective clothing to ensure the integrity of the experiments they are conducting, which involves the very matter that comprise the universe: electrons, photons, neutrons and protons.
The William Eckhardt Research Center where they are working is located across the street from where a team led by Enrico Fermi, the architect of the nuclear age, carried out the first self-sustaining nuclear reaction.
http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2019/3/13/defense-community-slow-to-grasp-potential-of-quantum-based-devices
