hysicists Carina Belvin (left) and Edoardo Baldini work in the MIT lab of Professor Nuh Gedik. They and colleagues have found a new way to manipulate magnetism in a material with light. Credit: Tianchuang Luo

Physicists manipulate magnetism with light

MIT scientists and colleagues have not only found a new way to manipulate magnetism in a material with light but have also realized a rare form of matter.  Excitons are composed of an electron and […]

Two trapped ions (in blue) are selected by optical tweezers (in red). A quantum gate between the ions can be implemented using electric fields. Credit: University of Amsterdam

A new method for quantum computing

Physicists at QuSoft and the University of Amsterdam have proposed a new architecture for a scalable quantum computer. Making use of the collective motion of the constituent particles, they were able to construct new building […]

Topology at the corner of the dining table

A research team has discovered an unusual topological aspect of sodium chloride, commonly known as table salt, which will not only facilitate the understanding of the mechanism behind salt’s dissolution and formation, but may also […]

Solving a superconducting mystery with more precise computations

A new, more precise method of simulating quantum materials has revealed the basis for superconductivity in copper-based oxides known as cuprates. Researchers, using powerful supercomputers, found that phonons, vibrational energy from crystal structure, contribute to […]

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Ultrathin materials for personal-sized quantum devices

MIT researchers have used ultrathin materials to build superconducting qubits that are at least one-hundredth the size of conventional designs and suffer from less interference between neighboring qubits. This advance could improve the performance of quantum computers and enable […]

Tiny materials lead to a big advance in quantum computing

Researchers used the 2D material hexagonal boron nitride to build much smaller capacitors for superconducting qubits, enabling them to shrink the footprint of a qubit by two orders of magnitude without sacrificing performance. Read More […]