When quan­tum par­ti­cles fly like bees

When quan­tum par­ti­cles fly like bees

At first glance, a system consisting of 51 ions may appear simple. But even if these charged atoms can only assume two different states, there will be more than two quadrillion (1015) different configurations which the system can […]

Quantum circuits to implement the measurement bases.

Scalable estimation of pure multi-qubit states

Researchers have introduced an inductive n-qubit pure-state estimation method based on projective measurements on mn + 1 separable bases or m entangled bases plus the computational basis, with m ≥ 2. The method exhibits a favorable scaling in the number of qubits compared to […]

More efficiency for optical quantum gates

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 […]

The lab S18 at the Institut Laue Langevin (ILL) in Grenoble

New quantum superposition measurement

A new two-path-interference experiment has been designed at TU Wien that only has to measure one specific particle to prove quantum superposition. A single neutron is measured at a specific position — and due to […]

A 3D representation of the spin-excitation continuum -- a possible hallmark of a quantum spin liquid -- observed in 2019 in a single crystal sample of cerium zirconium pyrochlore. (Image by Tong Chen/Rice University)

Computational sleuthing confirms first 3D quantum spin liquid

Computational detective work by physicists has confirmed cerium zirconium pyrochlore is a 3D quantum spin liquid, a solid material in which quantum entanglement and the geometric arrangement of atoms cause electrons to fluctuate between quantum […]

The VED framework for detecting entanglement on near-term quantum devices.

Detecting and quantifying entanglement on NISQ devices

Quantum entanglement is a key resource in quantum technology, and its quantification is a vital task in the current noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era. Researchers have combined hybrid quantum-classical computation and quasi-probability decomposition to propose […]

Fusion success creates a 7-GHZ state and failure performs X-basis measurements on the fused qubits, resulting in two 2-GHZ states (Bell pairs) and a 3-GHZ state. Even though the states are represented using graphs, they are not cluster states.

Entanglement generation in a quantum network at distance-independent rate

Researchers have developed a protocol for entanglement generation in the Quantum Internet that allows a repeater node to use n-qubit Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) projective measurements that can fuse n successfully entangled links, i.e., two-qubit entangled Bell pairs shared across n network edges, […]

Harvard, QuEra Computing observe quantum speed-up in optimization problems

Quantum speed-up in optimization problems using Rydberg atoms

A collaboration between Harvard University with scientists at QuEra Computing, MIT, University of Innsbruck and other institutions has demonstrated a breakthrough application of neutral-atom quantum processors to solve problems of practical use. Previously, neutral-atom quantum […]

Infographic explaining the experiment.

Long-range quantum entanglement needs three-way interaction

A new theorem from researchers at the RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project, Tokyo, and Keio University, Yokohama, provides an understanding of what types of long-range quantum entanglement survive at non-zero temperatures, revealing a fundamental […]

The set of more capable (MC) quantum channels, i.e. channels with zero complementary quantum capacity

Detecting positive quantum capacities of quantum channels

Determining whether a noisy quantum channel can be used to reliably transmit quantum information is a challenging problem in quantum information theory. This is because it requires computation of the channel’s coherent information for an […]

Single photon emitter takes a step closer to quantum tech

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 […]

A new qubit platform: Electrons from a heated light filament (top) land on solid neon (red block), where a single electron (represented as a wave function in blue) is trapped and manipulated by a superconducting quantum circuit (bottom patterned chip). (Image by Dafei Jin/Argonne National Laboratory.)

The quest for an ideal qubit

A team led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has announced the creation of a new qubit platform formed by freezing neon gas into a solid at very low temperatures, spraying […]

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QC Ware and Itaú Unibanco collaboration

Itaú Unibanco, the largest bank in Latin America, and QC Ware, a leading quantum software and services company, today announced the first results of a collaboration that is exploring quantum computing algorithms for the banking […]

2 × N plug-and-play (PnP) twin-field quantum key distribution (TF-QKD) network scheme.

2×N twin-field quantum key distribution network configuration

Developing Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) has been recently directed toward distance extension and network expansion for real-world secure communications. Considering a recent report on a quantum communication network over 4,600 km, it seems that QKD networks […]