Underwater quantum links are possible across 30 meters (100 feet) of turbulent water, scientists have shown. Such findings could help to one day secure quantum communications for submarines. Researchers have investigated establishing quantum communications links through […]
A research team led by Mikhail Lukin at Harvard University has recently proposed a new type of metasurface that can control both the spatiotemporal and quantum properties of transmitted and reflected light. The team showed that realizing a […]
A team of Australian scientists from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and the Australian National University (ANU) believe they have developed a way to address a decades-long challenge in the field of quantum materials—the […]
Different physical systems can be used to make a quantum computer. Trapped ions that form a crystal have led the research field for years, but when the system is scaled up to large ion crystals this method […]
Researchers at UNSW Sydney have addressed the problem of merging qubits and classical electronic circuits that requires multi-million-dollar refrigeration. The researchers’ proof-of-concept quantum processor unit cell, on a silicon chip, works at 1.5 Kelvin – […]
QuTech, a collaboration between TU Delft and TNO, has managed to control qubits in silicon at temperatures over 50 times higher than previously. The increase to practical temperatures represents a crucial leap towards a functional […]
Researchers at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland have successfully demonstrated a new electronic refrigeration technology that could enable major leaps in the development of quantum computers. The new electronic cooling technology could replace these cryogenic […]
Researchers at the University of Innsbruck and the Austrian Academy of Sciences present a new measuring method to identify and characterize so-called topological invariants on various experimental platforms. A particularly fascinating class of quantum states […]
Hybrid nanowires with proximity-induced superconductivity in the topological regime host Majorana zero modes at their ends. Networks of such structures can produce topologically protected qubits where the fundamental energy scale is given by the inter-pair […]
Recently researchers demonstrated numerically that QAOA performance varies as a power law in the amount of noise under certain physical noise models. A team of scientists at NASA Ames Research Center and USRA Research Institute […]
Physicists at MIT and elsewhere have observed evidence of Majorana fermions on the surface of a common metal: Gold. This is the first sighting of Majorana fermions on a platform that can potentially be scaled […]
PsiQuantum, a 5-year-old startup based in Palo Alto, building a scalable, fault tolerant, silicon photonic quantum computer, has just raised $215 million, as we announced yesterday. The startup aims to build a computer with 1 […]
A recent discovery by University of Arkansas physicists could help researchers establish the existence of quantum spin liquids, a new state of matter. They’ve been a mystery since they were first proposed in the 1970s. […]
Researchers have used high-resolution microscopy tools to peer at the inner-workings of an unusual type of superconductor, uranium ditelluride (UTe2).
According to theorists from universities in Warsaw and Oxford, the most important features of the quantum world may result from the special theory of relativity, which until now seemed to have little to do with […]
A team of researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF in Jena has developed a quantum imaging solution that can facilitate highly detailed insights into tissue samples using extreme spectral […]
The fruitful association of quantum and integrated photonics holds the promise to produce, manipulate, and detect quantum states of light using compact and scalable systems. Integrating all the building blocks necessary to produce high-quality photonic […]
Quantum light sources emitting triggered single photons or entangled photon pairs have the potential to boost the performance of quantum key distribution (QKD) systems. Proof-of-principle experiments affirmed these prospects, but further efforts are necessary to […]
Researchers from the Quantum Optomechanics group at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, recently entangled two laser beams through bouncing them off the same mechanical resonator, a tensioned membrane. This provides a novel way […]
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Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has proposed that the best way to tune qubits is using an AI. The team outlines a way to teach an AI to make an […]
Researchers at the University of Notre Dame, in partnership with those at Northwestern University, are a step closer to understanding how superconductors can be improved for reliability in future quantum computers. The team, led by […]
Exactly 10 years ago, the Large Hadron Collider – CERN’s flagship accelerator – embarked on its high-energy voyage. If you want to know more about this celebration, please visit the CERN’s website page. Kudos to […]
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have addressed the problem of maximizing the efficiency of a quantum circuit by using a mathematical analogue. They devised an algorithm to explicitly count the number of […]
Cambridge Quantum Computing released a System Description Paper detailing the design and construction of t|ket>™, its quantum software development platform. The paper describes advanced features that enable users to get optimal performance from their quantum software development […]