Effective compression of quantum circuits

NISQ devices are still prone to lots of errors, therefore the design of a fully operational large-scale quantum computer with high error tolerance is required. Currently, NISQ devices can be engineered with approximately 100 qubits, […]

Data-driven quantum error mitigation

Achieving near-term quantum advantage will require effective methods for mitigating hardware noise. One approach is to optimize quantum circuits using compiling and machine learning, while another employs variational quantum algorithms to reduce circuit depth and […]

New record in super-fast quantum light detection

Researchers from the University of Bristol‘s Quantum Engineering Technology Labs (QET Labs) and Université Côte d’Azur have made a new miniaturized light detector to measure quantum features of light in more detail than ever before. The […]

A new candidate material for Quantum Spin Liquids

Scientists at EPFL’s School of Basic Sciences have successfully produced and studied a Quantum Spin Liquid (QSL) in a highly original material known as EDT-BCO. The system was designed and synthesized at Université d’Angers, France […]

Atos and Pasqal to develop Quantum Accelerator for HPC

Atos will collaborate with French start-up Pasqal to develop a Quantum Accelerator based on neutral atom technology for High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems. This technology would make it possible to strengthen the computing capacities of current […]

A modem for a future Quantum Internet

The interface between local quantum devices and light quanta that enable the remote transmission of highly sensitive quantum information is a key topic of quantum communications. The Otto-Hahn group “Quantum Networks” at the Max-Planck-Institute of […]

Using quantum properties of light to transmit information

Researchers at the University of Rochester and Cornell University have taken an important step toward developing a communications network that exchanges information across long distances by using photons. The research team has designed a nanoscale […]

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French CEA-Leti to build Quantum-Photonics platform

French CEA-Leti has just announced the setup of a Quantum-Photonics Platform to ensure ultra-secure data for Finance, Energy, Defense and other industries. The Project will aim to build demonstrators for transmitting and receiving qubits and […]

World’s record entanglement storage

Researchers from Sorbonne University in Paris have achieved a highly efficient transfer of quantum entanglement into and out of two quantum memory devices. This achievement brings a key ingredient for the scalability of a future […]

Ultra-strong coupling between photons and atoms

TMO University researchers in Russia have demonstrated that individual atoms can be transformed into polaritons. In this new state of matter, photons and atoms form ultra-strong coupling for the first time. The results of this […]

Honeywell’s latest Quantum Computer – System Model H1

Honeywell has announced its latest generation of trapped-ion based quantum computing hardware, the System Model H1, the same system used by Honeywell scientists to demonstrate  Quantum Volume of 128 in September of 2020. The System Model H1 […]

First Trapped-Ion Quantum chip with integrated photonics

Researchers at MIT Lincoln Laboratory have created the first Trapped-Ion (TI) Quantum chip with integrated photonics. Honeywell and IonQ both create trapped-ion qubits using an isotope of rare-earth metal called ytterbium. In its chip using integrated […]

Surprising new communication between atoms

Physicists at University of Wisconsin–Madison have identified conditions under which relatively distant atoms communicate with each other in ways that had previously only been seen in atoms closer together. This work opens up new prospects […]

A Quantum Tango between Magnons and Phonons

Magnonics is a promising next-generation approach in which quantized spin waves, or magnons, are used to carry information. Magnons are generally hard to manipulate, but a study by Felix Godejohann of the Technical University of […]

Optical neuron system based on quantum cascade laser

Based on a Quantum Cascade Laser (QCL) emitting mid-infrared light, researchers at Télécom Paris have developed a basic optical neuron system operating 10,000× faster than biological neurons. Recently, extreme events have been observed in quantum […]

A network-ready random-access qubits memory

Photonic qubits memories are essential ingredients of numerous quantum networking protocols. The ideal situation features quantum computing nodes that are efficiently connected to quantum communication channels via quantum interfaces. The nodes contain a set of […]

Optical wiring for large quantum computers

Researchers at ETH have demonstrated a new technique for carrying out sensitive quantum operations on atoms. In this technique, the control laser light is delivered directly inside a chip. This should make it possible to […]

Particles might break the speed of light

Recent experiments show that particles should be able to go faster than light when they quantum mechanically “tunnel” through walls. QuantaMagazine has just published a very amazing article about tunneling effect and its consequences. Some […]

Professor of physics Andrew Jordan and his colleagues will use superconducting circuits to design experiments that can be carried out within a realistic quantum system, with the goal of studying concepts that are currently poorly understood in quantum mechanics. Credit: University of Rochester photo / J. Adam Fenster

Quantum engines with entanglement as energy?

University of Rochester has been granted a three-year, $1 million grant from the Templeton Foundation to research quantum measurement engines which use the principles of quantum mechanics to run with 100 percent efficiency.

New quantum effect in erasing information in qubits

Researchers from Trinity College Dublin have discovered a uniquely quantum effect in erasing information that may have significant implications for the design of quantum computing chips. The thermodynamics of computation was brought to the fore […]