Quantum Effect Devices, Santa Clara, Calif., an initial public offering of 3.7 million shares.
Shares of Turnstone Systems Inc., Sequenom Inc., and Quantum Effect Devices Inc. soared in their first trading day yesterday.
One way of obtaining the desired light is by leveraging the size or quantum effect of small semiconducting particles.
In some theories, the universe itself is a quantum effect, the result of a fluctuation in some sort of preuniversal nothingness.
Over at the Physics Buzz blog, tips include the scientists who made the first experimental confirmations of a weird quantum effect known as "entanglement".
Both Dr Zeilinger's and Dr Ling's teams have been trying this.Entanglement is a quantum effect that connects photons intimately, even when they are separated by a large distance.
Quantum Effect Devices, a company that develops embedded microprocessors for routers, network computers, set-top boxes and other equipment, closed at $56.50, compared with an offering price of $16.
The chip maker PMC-Sierra Inc. said yesterday that it would buy Quantum Effect Devices Inc., a maker of microprocessors used in consumer electronics, in a stock swap worth $2.3 billion based on Tuesday's closing prices.
Besides Turnstone, they are SkilSoft, a provider of corporate training courses; Sequenom, a biotechnology company; Quantum Effect Devices, a semiconductor company; Telaxis Communications, a wireless equipment company; Centra Software, an Internet company; and Alamosa PCS, a cell phone company.
The book suggests that a molecule in birds' eyes might be the site of a quantum effect that permits them to "see" a magnetic field and thereby to navigate.
He showed how a quantum error-correcting code which introduced only one extra qubit for error correction would create a robust system for quantum computation which had tolerance for faults caused by spontaneous emission, another bizarre quantum effect.
