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.”
An international team of scientists has invented the equivalent of body armour for extremely fragile quantum systems, which will make them robust enough to be used as the basis for a new generation of low-energy […]
A group of four friends had decided to take this responsibility and founded Brazil Quantum, with the ultimate goal to make Brazil a global player in quantum computing.
Origin Quantum Computing Technology, a Chinese startup, launched the country’s first homegrown operating system (OS) for quantum computers. The new OS, named Origin Pilot, has been optimized for the resource management and parallel processing capabilities […]
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has awarded ICASE (Industrial Cooperative Awards in Science & Technology) funding to the University of Birmingham, lead partner for the UK Quantum Technology Hub Sensors and Timing, and […]
Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC) today announced the latest version of tket (pronounced “ticket”), its high-performance quantum software development kit (SDK), with all licence restrictions removed for use of tket’s Python module (also known as “pytket”). […]
A team of physicists from the University of Glasgow are the first in the world to find a way to use quantum-entangled photons to encode information in a hologram.
Faster algorithms for combinatorial optimization could prove transformative for diverse areas such as logistics, finance and machine learning. A team of researchers at Google Research has demonstrated the application of the Google Sycamore superconducting qubit […]
Today’s quantum computers contain up to several dozen memory and processing units, the so-called qubits. Researchers from MPQ have successfully interconnected two such qubits located in different labs to a distributed quantum computer. Their system […]
A team of researchers has investigated transmon qubits made from semiconductor nanowires with a fully surrounding superconducting shell.
Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution (CV-QKD) enables information-theoretically secure key exchange between two parties using the continuous-variable properties of the quantized electromagnetic light field. The secret key rate of a CV-QKD system is limited by excess […]
A European consortium was launched today with the goal of scaling silicon quantum technologies. Named QLSI (Quantum Large-Scale Integration with Silicon), this four-year EU project, coordinated by CEA-Leti, will lay the foundation for the EU’s […]
Researchers at the US Army Research Laboratory have built a quantum sensor, which can sample the radio-frequency spectrum—from zero frequency up to 20 GHz—and detect AM and FM radio, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and other communication signals. The Rydberg […]
The QLSI consortium, a four-year EU project coordinated by CEA-Leti, aims to position Europe as a global leader in quantum computing by developing scalable silicon-based quantum processors, including a 16-qubit chip and an 8-qubit open-access system, while documenting requirements for systems exceeding 1,000 qubits as part of the €1 billion Quantum Flagship program.
Some interesting article in Medium written by an interdisciplinary team of IBM researchers with partners from Daimler AG and Virginia Tech.
QSens: Stuttgart-Ulm German cluster for Quantum Sensors
The size of the alpha particle, the nucleus of the helium atom, has been measured more accurately than ever before. Results now indicate a size 1.67824(83) femtometers, which is 4.8 times more precise than previous […]
It has been nearly three years since UK Quantum Technology Hub Sensors and Timing researchers at the University of Nottingham published a paper in Nature on non-invasive imaging techniques to investigate brain function. Since then, […]
With 41.95% of the votes, Ilyas Khan, CEO of the UK startup Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC), has won the title of the “Quantum Personality of the Year 2020“. As a visionary, Ilyas founded CQC in 2014, […]
Recent experimental breakthroughs in satellite quantum communications have opened up the possibility of creating a global Quantum Internet using satellite links.
Azure Quantum, the Microsoft’s full-stack, public cloud ecosystem for quantum solutions, is now open for business. Developers, researchers, systems integrators, and customers can use it to learn and build quantum solutions.
Building technology for real-world applications has always been a key aim for the UK Quantum Technology Hub Sensors and Timing since its formation in 2014. Covesion, co-founded by Hub researcher Professor Corin Gawith at the […]
A team of Microsoft and University of Sydney researchers has developed a novel approach for controlling qubits.
Motivated by recent work showing that a quantum error correcting code can be generated by hybrid dynamics of unitaries and measurements, a team of researchers has studied the long time behavior of such systems. They […]
A team of researchers has proposed an efficient method for simultaneously optimizing both the structure and parameter values of quantum circuits with only a small computational overhead.
A team of researchers from DNRF center bigQ at DTU Physics have, in collaboration with the University of Sheffield, University of York and the Danish company Cryptomathic A/S, developed a Quantum Random Number Generator (QRNG) […]