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.
A QuTech research team demonstrated initialization, readout, and universal control of four qubits created from eight germanium quantum dots, achieving quantum information transfer with 75% Bell state fidelity and establishing a versatile platform for quantum computing advancement.
Using Quobly’s Strategy to Build Qubits With FD-SOI Technology, Readout Architecture ‘Provides a Path to Low Power and Scalable Quantum’ ICs
ISTA physicists have developed a breakthrough method to connect superconducting qubits using fiber optics instead of traditional electrical signals, significantly reducing cooling requirements and potentially enabling the scaling and networking of quantum computers by converting optical signals to microwave frequencies that qubits can process.
Physicists achieved a quantum computing breakthrough by successfully connecting separate quantum processors through photonic links, enabling quantum teleportation of logical gates between modules and demonstrating the first distributed quantum computer system, which could potentially scale up without the limitations of cramming millions of qubits into a single device.
Ultrashort infrared light pulses are the key to a wide range of technological applications. The oscillating infrared light field can excite molecules in a sample to vibrate at specific frequencies, or drive ultrafast electric currents […]
In a special arrangement of atomic spins, Max Planck physicists have measured the properties of the so-called Haldane phase in an experiment. To do so, they used a quantum mechanical trick. In some materials, there […]
Researchers at University of Geneva (UNIGE) and CEA have presented new protocols for Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) in a prepare-and-measure setup with an asymmetric level of trust. While the device of the sender (Alice) is […]
Researchers at QuTech in Delft have succeeded in teleporting quantum information across a rudimentary network. This first of its kind is an important step towards a future quantum internet. This breakthrough was made possible by […]
A new project undertaken by a University of Birmingham researcher at the UK Quantum Technology Hub Sensors and Timing along with colleagues in the School of Engineering will help to facilitate greater sustainability for future […]
Scientists have demonstrated that wires more than 100 times thinner than a human hair can act like a quantum one-way street for electrons when made of a peculiar material known as a topological insulator. The […]
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics succeeded in massively improving the performance of a component that is crucial to optical quantum systems. Future quantum computers are expected not only to solve particularly […]
Stephanie Wehner at Delft University of Technology has been elected as new member of Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. She started out as a hacker, and now occupies a world-leading position with her […]
In quantum mechanics, the act of measurement produces unavoidable perturbation (also called “back-action”) on the state of the measured system. This effect is, in many cases, not desirable, as back-action often limits the precision of […]
Developing non-classical light sources that can emit, on-demand, exactly one photon at a time is one of the main requirements of quantum technologies. But although the first demonstration of such a “single photon emitter”, or […]
Researchers from QuTech, in collaboration with Fujitsu and Element Six, have demonstrated the fault-tolerant operation of a quantum bit using a quantum processor based on spin qubits in diamond. The team has realized a logical […]
It is well established that quantum error correction can improve the performance of quantum sensors. But new theory work cautions that, unexpectedly, the approach can also give rise to inaccurate and misleading results — and […]
Exactly one year after the first staring radar was installed at the University of Birmingham campus, a second identical radar has been installed, representing another step in the journey to hosting the very first quantum-enabled […]
Terra Quantum AG announces that it has extended its Series A funding round to $75m, as well as its research offering a ground-breaking solution to the longstanding challenge of efficient power devices for nanoelectronics. Terra Quantum […]
Q-CTRL has announced a partnership with The Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Switzerland’s largest research institute for natural and engineering sciences, to pioneer R&D in the scale-up of quantum computers. The strategic partnership will leverage Q-CTRL […]
Engineers from Intel and scientists from QuTech have delivered the first qubit made in the very same industrial manufacturing facilities that mass-produce conventional computer chips. This advancement has been a long-standing goal due to its […]
CEA, a French key player in research, development and innovation, and C12 Quantum Electronics, a startup focused on developing the next-generation of quantum computers using carbon nanotubes, today announced a partnership to produce the first […]
A research group at the University of Basel, working with the IBM Research Laboratory, has made a breakthrough in qubits scalability. In classic computers, the solution to the scalability problem lay in silicon chips, which […]
Organizations that want to investigate how Quantum Computing can benefit their business are invited to connect to the knowledge and technical infrastructure offered by the Quantum Application Lab (QAL) now. QAL is a newly formed […]
A UNIGE team in Geneva, Switzerland, has succeeded in storing a quantum bit for 20 milliseconds. A duration that had never before been achieved by a solid-state quantum memory. Long-duration quantum memories for photonic qubits […]
This new program (Master’s in Quantum Science and Engineering) at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, allows students with varied backgrounds in science and engineering to have the opportunity to acquire a comprehensive set of skills to become […]
A team of scientists at CERN led by MPQ physicist Masaki Hori has found that a hybrid antimatter-matter atom behaves in an unexpected way when submerged in superfluid helium. The result may open a new […]
A new International Network set up by QT Hub Sensors and Timing researchers at the University of Birmingham aims to tackle global challenges, as set out in the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Since the set […]
An object hidden below ground has been located using quantum technology – a long-awaited milestone with profound implications for industry, human knowledge and national security. UK National Quantum Technology Hub in Sensors and Timing researchers […]
In the past four years scientists have discovered metals whose crystal structure mimics that of a traditional Japanese woven bamboo pattern: kagome metals. The international research activity in this new direction of quantum materials has […]