Blanket of light may give better quantum computers

Researchers at Technical University of Denmark describe how they have created a ‘carpet‘ of thousands of quantum-mechanically entangled light pulses at room temperature . The discovery has the potential to pave the way for more […]

Stretched photons recover lost interference

Researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) and the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science (QuICS) have stretched out multiple photons and turned three distinct pulses into overlapping quantum waves. The work, which […]

Quantum physics: Ménage à trois photon-style

Researchers at the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, have discovered a new quantum property: by placing 3 pairs of photons in a network, it is possible to entangle them and create new ultra-strong correlations. Entanglement […]

New material could someday power quantum computer

Researchers at The Johns Hopkins University have found that a certain superconducting material contains special properties that could be the building blocks for quantum computers. The findings will be published October 11 in Science. The team has […]

Keeping cool with quantum wells

University of Tokyo researchers have announced a new approach for electrical cooling without the need for moving parts. By applying a bias voltage to quantum wells made of the semiconductor aluminum gallium arsenide, electrons can […]

Cambridge Quantum Computing Completes $45 Million Financing

Tunable optical chip paves way for new quantum devices

Researchers have created a silicon carbide (SiC) photonic integrated chip that can be thermally tuned by applying an electric signal. The approach could one day be used to create a large range of reconfigurable devices […]

QuCAT: Quantum Circuit Analyzer Tool in Python

Quantum circuits constructed from Josephson junctions and superconducting electronics are key to many quantum computing and quantum optics applications. Designing these circuits involves calculating the Hamiltonian describing their quantum behavior. Mario Gely, in the group of Gary […]

Quantum Graph Neural Networks

Researchers at X, The Moonshot Factory and Google Research have just released a very interesting paper about Quantum Graph Neural Networks (QGNN). QGNNs are a new class of quantum neural network ansatze which are tailored […]

Experimental two‐way communication with one photon

Researchers from IQOQI-Vienna published the paper “Experimental Two‐Way Communication with One Photon” where they present an experimental demonstration of a more efficient communication between two distant parties. This can lead to the realization of new […]

Creating different kinds of light with manipulable quantum properties

In a paper titled “Multiphoton quantum-state engineering using conditional measurements“, researchers at the Louisiana State University (LSU) describe a quantum manipulation and control of light, which might have applications in imaging, simulation, metrology, computation, communication, […]

Chinese satellite has been extending QKD

Three years after its launch, the Chinese satellite nicknamed “Micius”  has steadily been extending the reach of an encryption technology that is practically unbreakable. Chinese researchers proved it was possible for photons sharing quantum entanglement […]

Researchers on this project are graduate student Bin Fang and principal investigator Virginia Lorenz, associate professor of physics. Photo by L. Brian Stauffer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

First three-photon color entanglement

Researchers at University of Illinois have constructed a quantum-mechanical state in which the colors of three photons are entangled with each other. The state is a special combination, called a W state, that retains some […]

Google wants to build a useful quantum computer by 2029

Google Quantum Supremacy?

You’ve seen the stories—in the Financial Times, Technology Review, CNET, Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, or elsewhere—saying that a group at Google has now achieved quantum computational supremacy with a 53-qubit superconducting device. While these stories are easy to find, I’m not going to link to them here, for the simple reason that none of them were supposed to exist yet.

How to stop a quantum wave?

A research team at University of Buffalo has developed a “traffic light” that can bring quantum waves to a halt. The scientists isolated a specially built nano-conductor at an extremely cold temperature — minus 273 […]

Quantum biosensors with DNA-stabilized metal quantum clusters

Project BioSensing, a collaboration among two of Germany’s Fraunhofer institutes and Dutch Leiden University’s Institute of Physics, was developed to overcome the limits of modern biosensors by applying quantum technology. DNA-stabilized metal quantum clusters (QC-DNAs), […]