Researchers at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) have presented the first mechanically tunable monolayer graphene Quantum Dot (QD) whose electronic properties can be modified by in-plane nanometer displacements. Precisely manipulating individual charge carriers is […]
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 […]
Researchers have generated and detected quantum entanglement onboard a CubeSat nanosatellite weighing less than 2.6 kilograms and orbiting the Earth. The CubeSat was deployed into orbit from the International Space Station on 17 June 2019. […]
Nanofabrication techniques for superconducting qubits often suffer from residual contamination in the dielectric interfaces of these devices. This occurs because these techniques rely on resist-based electron-beam or optical lithography masks, which are placed and processed […]
Trapped ions that form a crystal are one of the technologies that can be used to make a quantum computer. But when the system is scaled up to large ion crystals this method gets very […]
Atos extends its portfolio of quantum solutions with Atos QLM Enhanced (Atos QLM E), a new GPU-accelerated range of its Atos Quantum Learning Machine (Atos QLM) product line. Offering up to 12 times more computation speed, Atos QLM E paves the […]
Researchers from University of Chicago, the University of Stuttgart, in Germany, and Linköping University, in Sweden, demonstrated the relative advantages that various quantum spintronics systems offer for developing new technologies. They especially focused their analysis […]
Honeywell’s quantum computer, dubbed H0, scored 64 on a measure known as quantum volume. That test gauges both the total count of a machine’s qubits — the fundamental elements that process data in a quantum computer […]
Researchers from the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhejiang University and RIKEN in Japan, has successfully performed quantum simulation of Dynamical Phase Transitions (DPT) in a Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick model with a 16-qubit superconducting quantum […]
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy suffers from poor sensitivity compared to other analytical techniques, because it relies on the weak magnetic fields produced by a small thermal nuclear spin polarization. Consequently, a conventional NMR apparatus […]
Element Six, part of the De Beers Group, is launching its first commercially-available, general-purpose chemical vapour deposition (CVD) quantum grade diamond, DNV-B1™. DNV-B1™, the first solution in Element Six’s new DNV™ Series, is targeted to those […]
Researchers at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) have developed a new mechanical quantum memory with sufficiently long storage times, a high readout efficiency, and the ability to operate at telecom wavelengths. As key component […]
Xanadu and AQT announced that PennyLane, an open-source project from Xanadu for quantum machine learning, automatic differentiation, and optimization, now supports AQT quantum computers. Xanadu develops software for quantum machine learning (QML) and optimization. PennyLane, one […]
While conducting experiments on a layered metal, EPFL researchers witnessed something very surprising. The unexpected electron behavior they discovered could open up possibilities in the field of quantum computing. In the world of materials science, […]
Researchers at the University of Sydney showed how concepts in robotics provide new opportunities to improve the efficiency of Quantum Computer hardware characterization and tuneup. New quantum computing architectures consider integrating qubits as sensors to […]
Few quantum effects are as mind-tripping as the quantum eraser, in which quantum signatures can appear or disappear depending on the future actions of an experimenter. Previous quantum eraser experiments have used photons, but a […]
A team of NASA scientists have observed Bose-Einstein condensates, aka the fifth state of matter, in space, aboard the International Space Station, for the first time. Albert Einstein and Indian mathematician Satyendra Nath Bose predicted […]
Satellite QKD-based secure communications is a hot topic as we wrote in a previous article. China has definitely a leadership in this domain and shows new progress and expertise. Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution (MDI-QKD), based […]
Researchers at Atos Quantum Lab, Ecole Polytechnique and Argonne National Laboratory demonstrated a recently introduced method that breaks a quantum circuit into smaller sub-circuits or fragments, and thus makes it possible to run circuits that […]
Be ready to add a new acronym to your quantum taxonomy: QCD aka Quantum Computer-aided Design. Researchers at Intel, MIT and University of Toronto, have addressed the question of how one can design and test […]
Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and Argonne National Laboratory, U.S. have implemented an advanced quantum algorithm for measuring physical quantities using simple optical tools. Their study takes us a step closer […]
Quantum photonics involves a new type of technology that relies on photons which can potentially carry qubits over large distances. If the photon source could be placed on a single chip and made to produce […]
The impressive pace of advance of quantum technology calls for robust and scalable techniques for the characterization and validation of quantum hardware. Quantum process tomography, the reconstruction of an unknown quantum channel from measurement data, […]
A team of researchers at Technion has made a dramatic breakthrough in the field of quantum science: a quantum microscope that records the flow of light, enabling the direct observation of light trapped inside a […]
Nonreciprocal microwave devices, such as circulators and isolators, are critical in high-fidelity qubit readout schemes. They unidirectionally route the readout signals and protect the qubits against noise coming from the output chain. However, cryogenic circulators […]