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.
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 […]
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 […]
Japanese startup QunaSys announces the launch of private beta release of QunaSys Qamuy for quantum chemistry calculations.
EPFL scientists and their colleagues have generated variable low-noise microwave signals by building variable microwave gears with two compact optical frequency combs. Low-noise microwave signals are of critical importance in numerous applications such as high-speed […]
The CERN Quantum Technology Initiative (QTI), which was announced in June, sees CERN join a rapidly-growing global effort to bring about a “second quantum revolution” – whereby phenomena such as superposition and entanglement, which enable an […]
The Quantum Industry Day in Switzerland (QIDiS) is a major European and Swiss event which gathers industrial R&D, academics and investors to foster exchange and accelerate the development of new quantum products. As you probably know if you read Swiss Quantum Hub […]
Physicist Reinhold Bertlmann of the University of Vienna, Austria has published a review of the work of his late long-term collaborator John Stewart Bell of CERN, Geneva, “Real or Not Real: that is the question,” […]
Physicists at the University of Basel have developed a minuscule instrument able to detect extremely faint magnetic fields.
Swiss-based startup Miraex has joined the IBM Q Network. Using IBM’s state-of-the-art quantum infrastructure and accompanying expertise, Miraex is working on simulation and pulse-level control of quantum hardware. Miraex has been founded by an international […]
Sheffield University spin-out AegiQ has raised £1.4m (€1.5m) to build a semiconductor platform for quantum communications.
This year, the US Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate, the Griffiss Institute, Oneida County, and State University of New York formed a partnership named Innovare Advancement Center. As part of its launch, Innovare hosted a global quantum-focused pitch competition under the title […]
Dotphoton, a Swiss image quantum-based processing startup announced it has raised a seven-digit Pre-Series A round.
The Swiss company Zurich Instruments has just introduced its SHFQA Quantum Analyzer that operates at up to 8.5 GHz and can thus perform direct readout of superconducting and spin qubits. Conceived as the next generation […]
A mobile banking app based on SK Telecom’s 5G quantum cryptography technology will be introduced at a South Korean bank. Personal information will be thoroughly protected when customers transfer money or going through identity verification […]
With the recent technological advancements in quantum computing, scientists face new challenges when it comes to the setup and control of qubit systems. In a webinar (August 20th, 2020 17:00 – 18:00 CEST, 11:00 – […]
A consortium of scientists, including from RMIT University and University of Adelaide, is using hybrid diamond and glass technology to make a new class of quantum sensors.
The quantum computation of electronic energies can break the curse of dimensionality that plagues many-particle quantum mechanics. It is for this reason that a universal quantum computer has the potential to fundamentally change computational chemistry […]
Miraex, together with top-notch partners Aperio Global and IBM, has been selected among the 15 finalists for the NASA Science Mission Directorate “Entrepreneurs Challenge”. Miraex, a Swiss startup located in Lausanne and spinoff of EPFL, is one of the few […]
SIG, ID Quantique and ADVA announced today the implementation of the first quantum encrypted datacenter interconnection with QKD.
ITMO University researchers have developed a Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) system with coherent detection based on subcarrier wave quantum key distribution protocol.
Atos announces the development of a new Quantum Annealing Simulator via its existing Atos Quantum Learning Machine offering (Atos QLM).
Swiss Zurich Instruments joins a new partner network, Chicago Quantum Exchange (CQE), which is a Chicago-based research hub (one of the largest QT research hubs in the USA) with the goal of advancing academic and industrial […]
Researchers from University of Basel, Bochum, and Copenhagen have gained new insights into the energy states of Quantum Dots (QD). The scientists confirmed certain energy transitions in QDs that had previously only been predicted theoretically: […]
EPFL scientists have coupled a new material with light at the level of a single photon. The achievement opens up prospects for better controlling and understanding the properties of quantum-correlated systems, where theoretical calculations are […]
We met Florian Emaury, CEO of Menhir Photonics, in March 2020. Menhir Photonics is a Swiss company developing unique ultrafast lasers and photonics solutions. This young but smart CEO has a nice vision of photonics […]