UCL researchers have developed a groundbreaking technique using arsenic atoms in silicon that achieves a 97% success rate for single-atom placement (compared to phosphorus’s 70%), potentially solving quantum computing’s twin challenges of error rates and scalability through scanning tunneling microscopy hydrogen resist lithography.
Researchers at China’s USTC have developed Zuchongzhi-3, a groundbreaking 105-qubit quantum computer that processes calculations 10^15 times faster than the most powerful supercomputers and one million times faster than Google’s latest quantum systems, marking a significant advancement in quantum supremacy.
IonQ is acquiring a controlling stake in quantum safe networking leader ID Quantique (IDQ) to strengthen its global quantum ecosystem, accelerate quantum networking development, and establish a strategic partnership with SK Telecom, with the acquisition expected to close in Q2 2025.
Quantum Machines has raised $170 million in Series C funding, bringing its total to $280 million, as the company’s hybrid control technology for quantum computing systems gains widespread adoption across the industry during a breakthrough year marked by significant hardware and error correction advancements.
An international research team has developed a groundbreaking technique to integrate superconductors with semiconductors by patterning platinum on germanium and heating it to form a superconducting alloy, demonstrating coherent quantum states that could enable hybrid quantum processors combining the scalability of semiconductor qubits with the long-range connectivity of superconducting circuits.
Israel-headquartered venture capital firm Entrée Capital announced on Monday that it has raised $100 million for a new, third fund.
Researchers have used high-resolution microscopy tools to peer at the inner-workings of an unusual type of superconductor, uranium ditelluride (UTe2).
A team of researchers has realized hybrid quantum algorithm for solving a linear system of equations with exponential speedup that utilizes quantum phase estimation, one of the exemplary core protocols for quantum computing. Terra Quantum […]
Exactly 10 years ago, the Large Hadron Collider – CERN’s flagship accelerator – embarked on its high-energy voyage. If you want to know more about this celebration, please visit the CERN’s website page. Kudos to […]
We, Swiss Quantum Hub (SQH), are pleased to announce we have joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Activate program. AWS Activate program will provide the startups in our accelerator with low cost, easy-to-use infrastructure needed […]
The IBM Quantum competition is part of IBM’s commitment to realize the ground-breaking potential of quantum computing, and cultivate “an educated and motivated network of researchers, educators, students, programmers and businesses.” Beginning in 2018, the “IBM Q” […]
Researchers of the University of Basel have developed a new method with which individual isolated molecules can be studied precisely, without destroying the molecule or even influencing its quantum state. Spectroscopic analyses are based on […]
Researchers from ETH Zurich and the Paul Scherrer Institute has developed a way to build an all-electric magnetic logic gate. The work builds on the idea of magnetic racetrack memory, in which wires are moved […]
The Time and Frequency Laboratory of the University of Neuchâtel is working on a new generation of atomic clocks, in collaboration with the European Space Agency. Time holds almost no secrets for scientists at the […]
Physicists at ETH Zurich have demonstrated a five-meter-long microwave quantum link, the longest of its kind to date. It can be used both for future quantum computer networks and for experiments in basic quantum physics […]
Dr. Flore Kunst, Postdoc researcher in the Theory group at MPQ, which is directed by Ignacio Cirac, was nominated the “Female Physicist of the Week” by the German Physical Society (DPG). With this initiative the […]
Cambridge Quantum Computing announced a collaboration with CERN Openlab, named the QUATERNION project, in quantum computing.
ID Quantique integrates with the Fortinet Security Fabric to provide long-term security for critical data transported over Virtual Private Networks (VPN).
Researchers have been able to demonstrate how a quantum system measurement lasts only a millionth of a second.
Massive-scale particle physics produces correspondingly large amounts of data and this is particularly true of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest particle accelerator, which is housed at the European Organization for Nuclear Research […]
The ALPHA collaboration at CERN has reported the first measurements of certain quantum effects in the energy structure of antihydrogen, the antimatter counterpart of hydrogen. These quantum effects are known to exist in matter, and […]
Researchers at ETH Zurich have joined forces to develop a novel light detector which consists of two-dimensional layers of different materials that are coupled to a silicon optical waveguide. This extremely fast and sensitive light […]
Physicists from EPFL, Switzerland and University of Bremen have unveiled fingerprints of the long-sought particle known as Mahan exciton in the room temperature optical response of the popular methylammonium lead halide perovskites. The optical properties […]
Researchers at EPFL and NCCR MARVEL have developed a novel formulation that describes how heat spreads within crystalline materials. This can explain why and under which conditions heat propagation becomes fluid-like rather than diffusive. Their […]
Researchers at CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay have demonstrated the 3-D trapping of atoms in a Rydberg state inside holographic optical bottle beam traps.
ID Quantique (IDQ), the Swiss quantum company leader in quantum-safe security and quantum sensing, announced the launch of the ID Qube Series, a compact and cost-effective series of modules for single-photon detection at telecom wavelengths.
Researchers at ETH Zürich and National University of Singapore have carried out a study investigating whether advantage distillation, a classical cryptography technique that has so far never been successfully implemented, can be applied to device-independent […]
Researchers have proven that the Heisenberg limit as it is commonly stated is not operationally meaningful, and needs to be corrected by a factor of π.
Swiss start-up Dotphoton and the European Space Agency (ESA) have signed a contract to test Dotphoton’s efficient information-preserving image compression technology for use in space applications. Dotphoton’s software provides raw image data compression with guaranteed raw image […]
The LHCb (Large Hadron Collider beauty) collaboration at CERN has reported an intriguing new result in its quest to test a key principle of the Standard Model called lepton universality. Although not statistically significant, the […]