New method predicts spin dynamics of materials

Researchers at UC Santa Cruz have developed a theoretical foundation and new computational tools for predicting a material’s spin dynamics, a key property for building solid-state quantum computing platforms and other applications of spintronics. Spin […]

OIDA Report: Photonics and Quantum Technologies

Quantum technologies are expected to have major impacts in markets ranging from telecom and medicine to finance but advances in product engineering are necessary to bring the technologies to market, according to the newly released OIDA […]

A boost to Rydberg quantum computing

Trapped neutral atoms have become a prominent platform for quantum science, where entanglement fidelity records have been set using highly excited Rydberg states. However, controlled two-qubit entanglement generation has so far been limited to alkali […]

Guessing probability in Quantum Key Distribution

The first Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) protocol has been proposed by Bennett and Brassard in 1984. Since then, the security of QKD has always been the central issue in the quantum cryptographic field. Trace distance […]

Robust entanglement preparation against noise

Initialization of composite quantum systems into highly entangled states is usually a must to enable their use for quantum technologies. However, unavoidable noise in the preparation stage makes the system state mixed, hindering this goal. […]

Locating Objects with Quantum Radar

A team of Italian and Chinese researchers propose a method that uses entangled photons as radar probes. The quantum radar methods so far proposed could determine the distance to an object more precisely than classical […]

Spin sensor of only 11 atoms

Researchers at Delft University of Technology have developed a spintronic sensor that is only 11 atoms in size. The sensor is capable of capturing spin magnetic waves and consists of an antenna, a readout capability, […]

Robust entanglement distribution via telecom fibre

Distributing entangled photon pairs over noisy channels is an important task for various quantum information protocols. Encoding an entangled state in a decoherence-free subspace (DFS) formed by multiple photons is a promising way to circumvent […]

How many qubits for quantum supremacy?

This is a very interesting paper published by well-known people of the Quantum Community. Quantum computational supremacy arguments, which describe a way for a quantum computer to perform a task that cannot also be done […]

Hybrid quantum system with molecule-atom entanglement

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have managed a molecule-atom entanglement. They entangled an electrically charged atom and an electrically charged molecule, paving the road towards a hybrid quantum information system. […]

Physicists develop world’s best qubits

A team of researchers at UCLA has set a new record for preparing and measuring the quantum bits, or qubits, inside of a quantum computer without error. The techniques they have developed make it easier […]

Quantum Hall effect in 3-D topological materials

Researchers have found surprising evidence that the quantum Hall effect exists in topological superconductors that could be used to build fault-tolerant quantum computers. The quantum Hall effect was first measured in two-dimensional materials.  The study […]

Efficient detection of microwave photons

Researchers at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) demonstrate a new microwave-photon detection method that improves on existing techniques by yielding significantly fewer false positive detections. High-performance single-photon detectors work by transforming the […]

Quantum Computing at room temperature

US Army researchers became the first to demonstrate the feasibility of a quantum logic gate comprised of photonic circuits and optical crystals. Photonic circuits that incorporate nonlinear optical crystals have presently emerged as the sole […]

‘Hot and messy’ entanglement of 15 trillion atoms

When dealing with entanglement, current quantum technologies isolate the systems they work with and operate at temperatures close to absolute zero. In a recent experiment, the ICFO team, in contrast, heated a collection of atoms […]

KT sends 5G data with quantum cryptography

KT has made a field test success that encrypts and transmits 5G data with a quantum cryptographic communication technology developed in Korea. This test is the most basic step in launching a service with the […]

Photon-assisted tunneling signatures in Majorana wires

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen and Microsoft Quantum Lab Copenhagen have recently carried out a study investigating the potential of Majorana zero modes, zero-energy quasiparticle states that can be found in superconductive hybrid nanowires, […]

QKD provides security in power grid

A team from the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge and Los Alamos national laboratories led a QKD demonstration in power grid hosted by EPB, a community-based utility and telecommunications company. Using an isolated portion […]

Single-atom and single-electron transistors

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues at the University of Maryland have developed a step-by-step recipe to produce the atomic-scale devices. Using these instructions, the NIST-led team has […]