Physicists of the Laboratory for Attosecond Physics have measured the flight times of electrons in molecules after their creation with light. The small quantum particles were emitted from a specific atom within the molecules, which […]
Researchers from the University of Basel, the Swiss Nanoscience Institute (SNI) and University of Hanover have succeeded in creating strong coupling between quantum systems over a great distance. They accomplished this with a novel method […]
Exotic atoms, in which electrons are replaced by other subatomic particles of the same charge, allow deep insights into the quantum world. After eight years of ongoing research, a group led by Masaki Hori who […]
Researchers at the University of Science and Technology in Hefei and Wuhan University in China have demonstrated SiC can boast some of the quantum merits of diamond (nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers) with the additional advantage of […]
A group of researchers based at The City College of New York (CCNY) provide new insights on the dynamics of spin thermalization at the nanoscale. Understanding why this happens and how it can be controlled is presently at […]
A discovery that long eluded physicists has been detected in a laboratory at Princeton. A team of physicists detected superconducting currents — the flow of electrons without wasting energy — along the exterior edge of […]
MPQ Scientists opened a new window into the quantum world. After eight years they succeeded in a challenging experiment with PSI and CERN: they created an artificial atom, the so-called pionic helium, in which the […]
A team of researchers led by IMDEA Nanociencia, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and Universidad Complutense de Madrid have presented a new strategy to fabricate quasi-metallic 1-D polymers with atomic precision by exploiting topological order and […]
Researchers in at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) have shown that a single atom can function as either an engine or a fridge. Such a device could be engineered into future computers and […]
Scientists in the Quantum Dynamics Unit at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) are running experiments to see how the motion of electrons is impacted by fluid. Ohm’s law, a physics law, […]
The team of researchers (including people from Q-CTRL) has studied a class of entangling gates for trapped atomic ions and demonstrated the use of numeric optimization techniques to create a wide range of fast, error-robust […]
At Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, researchers working at the intersection of materials science, chemical engineering, and physics are uncovering an optical version of Quantum Hall Effect (QHE). QHE is a difference in mechanical voltage that is […]
Scientists at EPFL and IBM Research Europe report experiments in which mechanical vibration is reduced close to the ultimate limit given by the laws of quantum mechanics. The work represents a breakthrough in the manipulation […]
Researchers at Johns Hopkins built on their previous study about the search for basic building blocks of materials called superconductors with spin-triplet pairing, which were considered to be very rare. The rare property of spin-triplet […]
In the April 2020 issue of Physics World, editors explain how diamond, this special form of carbon, now has many practical quantum applications.
Physicists at Universität Regensburg have coupled the vibrations of a macromolecule, a carbon nanotube, to a microwave cavity, creating a novel and highly miniaturized optomechanical system. The team achieved this by using the quantization of […]
Scientists from Tokyo University of Science, RIKEN Centre for Emergent Matter Science, Japan, and University of Technology, Sydney, have collaborated and proposed a novel two-dimensional design that can be constructed using existing integrated circuit technology. […]
Researchers at the University of Copenhagen, in collaboration with Microsoft Quantum researchers, have used a pencil-shaped semiconductor measuring only a few hundred nanometers in diameter to uncover a new route to topological superconductivity and Majorana […]
Zapata Computing, a startup software company for NISQ-based quantum applications, has just announced an Early Access Program to Orquestra™, its end-to-end platform for quantum-enabled workflows. Providing this software- and hardware-interoperable, enterprise quantum toolset, Orquestra enables advanced […]
An EPFL research team led by Tobias J. Kippenberg has now demonstrated integrated soliton microcombs with repetition rates as low as 10 GHz. This was achieved by significantly lowering the optical losses of integrated photonic […]
Scientists at Ames Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and the University of Alabama Birmingham have discovered a light-induced switching mechanism in a Dirac semimetal. The mechanism establishes a new way to control the topological material, driven […]
University of Arizona engineering and optical sciences researchers, in collaboration with engineers from General Dynamics Mission Systems, demonstrate how a combination of two techniques (radio frequency photonics sensing and quantum metrology) can give sensor networks […]
MIT physicists have found a way to cool molecules of sodium lithium down to 220 nanokelvins, just a hair above absolute zero. They did so by applying a technique called collisional cooling, in which they immersed molecules […]
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have for the first time created and imaged a novel pair of quantum dots. Quantum dots are tiny islands of confined electric […]
Underwater quantum links are possible across 30 meters (100 feet) of turbulent water, scientists have shown. Such findings could help to one day secure quantum communications for submarines. Researchers have investigated establishing quantum communications links through […]