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HONG KONG On Easter Sunday at Yuen Long in the New Territories, visitors can watch a day-long traditional festival in honor of Tin Hau, the Taoist goddess of the sea, even though it is 11 days before her birthday. Amid dragon dances and fortune-telling, fishermen from across the city gather to pray for calm waters and heavy nets. Call Grayline Tours...
...switches and memory-storage devices at the heart of so-called quantum computers, which use subatomic effects for processing information. Such applications are a decade away at least; for now, physicists are happy to probe the strange interplay of light and matter. "It's great fun," says Lene Hau, leader of the Harvard-Rowland team. "And it's great science...
Phillips worked with the team led by Associates of the Harvard College Observatory Ronald L. Walsworth and Mikhail D. Lukin. Their paper will be published in Physical Review Letters. Another group, led by Associate of the Department of Physics Lene V. Hau, is publishing a similar study next week in Nature...
...research is based in part on work by Hau published two years ago in Nature, in a study which brought light down to about 40 m.p.h...
...Hau could not be reached yesterday for comment...