Physicists at Caltech have demonstrated the benefits of a lesser-studied approach for quantum computers that relies not on atoms but molecules. if a quantum computer platform uses qubits made of molecules, the researchers say, the […]
Xanadu, a leading company in photonic quantum computing, announced the release of the world’s first publicly available Photonic Quantum Cloud platform. Developers can now access Xanadu’s gate-based photonic quantum processors, in 8, 12, and soon […]
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 […]
The Schwinger model (quantum electrodynamics in 1+1 dimensions) is a testbed for the study of quantum gauge field theories. Given an elementary or high-energy quantum field theory, the best demonstration of its efficacy is showing […]
Researchers at Google’s AI Quantum team have used a quantum computer to simulate a chemical reaction, the Hartree-Fock approximation of a real chemical system, for the first time. The reaction is a simple one, but this marks […]
Researchers at MIT, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have found that a qubit’s performance may soon hit a wall because of the low-level, otherwise harmless background radiation that is emitted by trace elements […]
For the first time, researchers from Duke University and the University of Maryland have designed a fully connected 32-qubit trapped-ion quantum computer register operating at cryogenic temperatures. The new system represents an important step toward […]
IBM on Thursday announced it’s reached a new quantum computing milestone, hitting its highest Quantum Volume to date. Using a 27-qubit client-deployed system, IBM achieved a Quantum Volume of 64. Quantum Volume is a metric […]
So far, superconducting quantum computers have certain constraints on qubit connectivity, such as nearest-neighbor couplings. To overcome this limitation, a team of researchers at RIKEN, Japan, has proposed a scalable architecture to simultaneously connect several […]
Researchers at Oxford University, in collaboration with DeepMind, University of Basel and Lancaster University, have created a machine learning algorithm that interfaces with a quantum device and ‘tunes’ it faster than human experts, without any […]
Physicists from Trinity College Dublin have proposed a thermometer based on quantum entanglement that can accurately measure temperatures a billion times colder than those in outer space. These ultra-cold temperatures arise in clouds of atoms, […]
A research project funded by the U.S. Army has developed a new approach to manufacturing quantum computer chips, representing a significant step forward toward making quantum processors. The research was completed by scientists at the […]
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 team of researchers successfully created the first artificial atom using photons as threads to weave electrons together. In contrast to interband excitons in undoped quantum wells, doped quantum wells do not display sharp resonances […]
MIP* = RE is not a typo. It is a groundbreaking discovery and the catchy title of a recent paper in the field of quantum complexity theory. Complexity theory is a zoo of “complexity classes” of which MIP*and RE are […]
Computer scientists at UCLA have shown that existing compilers, which tell quantum computers how to use their circuits to execute quantum programs, inhibit the computers’ ability to achieve optimal performance. Specifically, their research has revealed […]
A team of scientists at the University of Chicago‘s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering announced the discovery of a simple modification that allows quantum systems to stay coherent 10,000 times longer than before. Though the scientists tested […]
A team of researchers from Heriot-Watt University, the Indian Institute of Technology and the University of Glasgow has demonstrated a way to transport entangled particles through a commercial fiber cable with 84.4% fidelity. The work […]
Yale physicists have developed an error-correcting cat qubit—a new device that combines the Schrödinger’s cat concept of superposition (a physical system existing in two states at once) with the ability to fix some of the […]
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 Gravity Delve project, funded by Innovate UK, brings together academics from the UK Quantum Technology Hub Sensors and Timing, which is led by the University of Birmingham and Nemein Ltd, with the aim of investigating […]
Researchers at University of Sydney Nano Institute have developed the first system-wide quantum algorithm to characterize noise. Noise is the main obstacle to building large-scale quantum computers. To tame the noise (interference or instability), scientists […]
A new theoretical study identifies fundamental tradeoffs that limit the amount of noise reduction in quantum information systems. Quantum information technology could perform certain tasks faster and more securely than classical methods, but noise is […]
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 […]
A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in China has developed a form of the board game Go using entanglement. The researchers created a version of quantum Go using entangled photons and found that […]