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.
Microsoft has demonstrated the world’s first topological qubit using Majorana Zero Modes in specially-engineered topoconductor materials, achieving measurement-based control through quantum dot interactions while securing DARPA support to build a fault-tolerant prototype that could scale to one million qubits and revolutionize scientific discovery.
Using Quobly’s Strategy to Build Qubits With FD-SOI Technology, Readout Architecture ‘Provides a Path to Low Power and Scalable Quantum’ ICs
The research demonstrates how quantum state tomography can reveal the full quantum characteristics of photoelectrons emitted from atoms, showing pure quantum states in helium but mixed states in argon due to spin-orbit coupling, thus bridging photoelectron spectroscopy with quantum information science.
The company‘s biomolecular models can integrate outputs from quantum computers to accelerate CPU or GPU-based methods routinely used in structure-based drug discovery, such as molecular similarity and conformational search. (nextbigfuture.com) Read more.
Physicists have built a super-fast version of the central building block of a quantum computer, completing an operation in 0.8 nanoseconds. (University of New South Wales) Read more.
Google wants to make the quantum programmer life easier with its new open-source software. Developers may better experiment with the quantum machines, including Google’s own super-powerful quantum processor. (MIT Technology Review)
Purdue University researchers are among the first to build a gate, what could be a quantum version of a transistor, with qudits. Whereas qubits can exist only in superpositions of 0 and 1 states, qudits […]
ABN AMRO and Qutech are working to develop a technology based on Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) to improve banking security.
It’s a long due problem for building a Quantum Internet. The Chinese research team has achieved to eliminate the need of quantum memory in a quantum repeater. That paths a new way on long-distance quantum […]
Researchers have developed hybrid algorithms to run on size-limited quantum machines. They used decomposition methods to break the problem down into smaller pieces that the quantum computer could manage. (DOE/Argonne National Laboratory) Read more.
The Russian government has signed a number of agreements with several state-owned enterprises to distribute responsibilities for the development of a wide range of technologies. Under the new contracts, Russian Railways will manage the development […]
Current semiconductor manufacturing equipment should not be the obvious choice to make quantum computers, whatever technology (superconductor or trapped-ion). Despite 10nm capability, these tools have for relative precision which is insufficient for quantum devices. Quantum […]
Experiments suggest that exotic superconducting materials share a “strange metal” state characterized by a quantum speed limit that somehow acts as a fundamental organizing principle. The findings, reported in Nature Physics by a team working at the University […]