Scientists have achieved a major breakthrough in quantum technology by deriving an exact mathematical expression for entanglement distillation under specialized conditions, correcting flawed theories from two decades ago and advancing theoretical capabilities far beyond current experimental limitations.
Researchers successfully simulated Google’s 53-qubit Sycamore quantum circuit seven times faster than the original quantum computer using 1,432 GPUs and innovative tensor network algorithms, effectively refuting Google’s quantum advantage claim.
Scientists have discovered and experimentally confirmed the existence of “quadruplons,” genuine four-body quasi-particles consisting of two electrons and two holes tightly bound together in a monolayer semiconductor, which represent a fundamentally new type of matter excitation beyond previously known quasi-particles like excitons and bi-excitons.
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.
A groundbreaking theory bridges quantum mechanics and general relativity by treating the spacetime metric as a quantum operator and introducing an entropy-based gravitational action that yields modified Einstein equations with an emergent cosmological constant, potentially explaining cosmic expansion and dark matter through a novel auxiliary “G-field.”
A team of French and Dutch researchers present a general signal processing method for processing, analysing and representing electrical quantum currents directly at the level of individual electronic wave functions.
About a year ago, a team from the Institute of Physics at Julius-Maximilians-Universität (JMU) Würzburg in Bavaria, Germany, succeeded in creating spin defects, also known as qubits, in a layered crystal of boron nitride and […]
ETH Zurich and the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) establish a joint centre for the development of quantum computers. Its aim is to advance the realization of quantum computers based on both ion traps and superconducting […]
Pharmaceutical giant Merck is taking a cautious but informed approach that includes setting up an internal working group and partnering with Quantum Computing startup Seeqc to monitor developments while keeping an open mind. About 3 years […]
Researchers at University of Chicago showed how to bring multiple molecules at once into a single quantum state — one of the most important goals in quantum physics. One of the essential states of matter […]
A Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory-led international team of researchers has discovered a way to use ion beams to create long strings of “color center” qubits in diamond. Creating large numbers of high-quality qubits, in close […]
Goldman Sachs and QC Ware researchers have designed new, robust quantum algorithms that outperform state-of-the-art classical algorithms for Monte Carlo simulations and can be used on near-term quantum hardware expected to be available in 5 to 10 […]
Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC) has partnered with the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luftund Raumfahrt aka DLR) to explore how Quantum Computing could help create better simulation models for battery development to aid future […]
Scientists from the University of Bristol’s Quantum Engineering Technology Labs (QETLabs) have developed a Machine Learning algorithm that provides valuable insights into the physics underlying quantum systems. The team from QET Labs has described an algorithm which […]
Flying taxis sound improbable but are actually just a short time away from being realised. A recent Economist article highlighted the growing investment being poured into this new vehicle sector across the world, and in […]
A wearable brain scanner is being used, for the first time, to investigate the brain activity in elderly people whilst driving a car.
Josephson junctions are simple superconducting devices comprising an insulator or semiconductor separating two superconducting regions. They form the workhorse of superconducting technologies and are exquisitely sensitive to magnetic field. One long-sought proposal has been to […]
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have developed a novel type of thermometer that can simply and quickly measure temperatures during quantum calculations with extremely high accuracy. The breakthrough provides a benchmarking tool for quantum computing. In […]
Photon loss in optical fibers prevents long-distance distribution of quantum information on the ground. Quantum repeater is proposed to overcome this problem, but the communication distance is still limited so far because of the system […]
Ally Financial, a leading digital financial services company, shared that it is partnering with Microsoft on Azure Quantum solutions. The company will utilize Azure Quantum to explore how Microsoft’s quantum capabilities can help deliver impact for their customers. Given […]
In a world first, researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) have captured an image showing the internal orbits, or spatial distribution, of particles in an exciton—a goal that had […]
At the AWS Center for Quantum Computing, Amazon’s scientists are doing scientific research and development on Quantum Computing algorithms and hardware. They posted a summary of their findings from their first architecture paper that describes a theoretical […]
Ensuring the correct functioning of Quantum Error Correction (QEC) circuits is crucial to achieve fault tolerance in realistic quantum processors subjected to noise. The first checkpoint for a fully operational QEC circuit is to create […]
CaixaBank is progressing in its preparation strategy for the arrival of quantum computing. After successfully performing the first real tests of quantum computing to study the applications of this technology in financial services, the institution […]
A new study outlines the need for materials advances in the hardware that goes into making quantum computers. The team of researchers surveyed the state of research on quantum computing hardware with the goal of […]
Recent advances in Quantum Computing have drawn considerable attention to building realistic application for and using quantum computers. However, designing a suitable quantum circuit architecture requires expert knowledge. For example, it is non-trivial to design […]
Quantum Brilliance, an Australian startup, and Quantum-South, an Uruguayan startup, has announced a partnership to jointly develop and market of complementary products and technology in shipping logistics optimization. The companies will be performing proof of concept implementations […]
A research team around Quantum tech startup Terra Quantum pushed sensing capacity beyond what has previously been achievable by exploiting quantum resources.
A team of researchers at QuTech – a collaboration between Delft University of Technology and TNO – is the first to have connected two quantum processors through an intermediate node and to have established shared entanglement between multiple stand-alone quantum processors.
Squeezed light sources are a fundamental building block of photonic technologies for quantum information processing. Squeezing is an essential resource for quantum sensing and a wide range of quantum computing algorithms. Recently, much effort has […]