Head-on collisions of oblong uranium nuclei can take orientations between body-body and tip-tip (a) to produce a quark-gluon plasma (QGP) with varying shapes and sizes (b). These QGP characteristics drive distinct expansion patterns (c), leading to different distributions of emitted particles (d). By measuring the variation in these “flow” patterns from collision to collision and comparing them to collisions of near-spherical gold nuclei, scientists can extract the shape of the uranium nuclei. Credit: Jiangyong Jia/Stony Brook University

Nuclear Structure Unveiled: A Quantum Snapshot Method

Scientists have developed an innovative technique for studying nuclear structure using high-energy particle collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science user facility for nuclear physics research located […]

Package Image & Conceptual Chart of a Recon Photonics 4-Qubit Chip. Credit: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)

8-Photon Qubit Chip Accelerates Quantum Computing

South Korean researchers at the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) have achieved a significant breakthrough in quantum computing with their development of an advanced photonic quantum circuit chip. The chip’s most notable feature is […]

The team in the laboratory: Birgit Stiller, Changlong Zhu and Claudiu Genes. Credit: Susanne Viezens

Innovative Breakthrough in Entangling Light and Sound

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL) have developed a groundbreaking method for quantum entanglement that pairs photons with acoustic phonons through Brillouin scattering, marking a significant advance in quantum […]

Testing the network structure in uncharacterized realizations of quantum networks.

Guarantees on the structure of experimental quantum networks

npj Quantum Information, Published online: 14 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41534-024-00911-z Quantum networks connect and supply a large number of nodes with multi-party quantum resources for secure communication, networked quantum computing and distributed sensing. As these networks […]

Band structures of time-varying Lorentzian material.

Photonic Time Crystals That Amplify Light Exponentially

Scientists have achieved a breakthrough in creating photonic time crystals, groundbreaking materials that can exponentially amplify light. This development could revolutionize lasers, sensors, and communication technologies. The international research team’s work was published in Nature […]

The generative modeling framework using quantum circuit Born machines.

Trainability barriers and opportunities in quantum generative modeling

npj Quantum Information, Published online: 13 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41534-024-00902-0 Quantum generative models provide inherently efficient sampling strategies and thus show promise for achieving an advantage using quantum hardware. In this work, researchers have investigated the […]

360 erbium ion Qubits in a crystal membrane

The rare-earth element erbium could play a key role in future quantum networks: Researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) and the Technical University of Munich (TUM), led by Andreas Reiserer, have […]

An example of the QCMP as a sequence of steps needed to assign qubits from an algorithm to a quantum device

Lightcone bounds for quantum circuit mapping via uncomplexity

npj Quantum Information, Published online: 09 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41534-024-00909-7 Lightcone bounds for quantum circuit mapping via uncomplexity Efficiently mapping quantum circuits onto hardware is integral for the quantum compilation process, wherein a circuit is modified […]

Universal small-signal model of a quantum device embedded in a classical circuit.

Unified linear response theory of quantum electronic circuits

npj Quantum Information, Published online: 09 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41534-024-00907-9 Unified linear response theory of quantum electronic circuits Modeling the electrical response of multi-level quantum systems at finite frequency has been typically performed in the context […]

Overview of ququart encoding architecture in the omg level structure of 171Yb atoms.

An architecture for two-qubit encoding in neutral ytterbium-171 atoms

npj Quantum Information, Published online: 02 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41534-024-00898-7 An architecture for two-qubit encoding in neutral ytterbium-171 atoms In this paper, researchers present an architecture for encoding two qubits within the optical “clock” transition and […]

Workshop thematic map

Data needs and challenges for quantum dot devices automation

npj Quantum Information, Published online: 31 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41534-024-00878-x Gate-defined quantum dots are a promising candidate system for realizing scalable, coupled qubit systems and serving as a fundamental building block for quantum computers. However, present-day […]

Quantum simulators show resilience to errors

Theorists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics have made a significant stride in the field of quantum computing. Their research addresses a long-standing question: can quantum computers really outperform classical computers in solving […]

Schematic representation of a spin-photon-based quantum processor consisting of six optically coupled quantum registers

Major development successes in diamond spin photon quantum computers

Lower cooling requirements, longer operating times, lower error rates: Quantum computers based on spin photons and diamond promise significant advantages over competing quantum computing technologies. The consortium of the BMBF project SPINNING coordinated by Fraunhofer […]

robust projective measurement through measuring code-inspired observables

Robust projective measurements through measuring code-inspired observables

npj Quantum Information, Published online: 26 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41534-024-00904-y Robust projective measurements through measuring code-inspired observables Quantum measurements are ubiquitous in quantum information processing tasks, but errors can render their outputs unreliable. Here, researchers present […]

Photo (Paderborn University, Hennig/Mazhiqi): Scientists at Paderborn University have for the first time used high-performance computing (on the right in the picture the Paderborn supercomputer Noctua) to analyse a quantum photonics experiment on a large scale.

Quantum experiments and high-performance computing

Scientists have used high-performance computing at large scales to analyze a quantum photonics experiment. In specific terms, this involved the tomographic reconstruction of experimental data from a quantum detector. Read More Quantum Computers News — […]

Flux attachment for bosons on a lattice

Flux attachment provides a powerful conceptual framework for understanding certain forms of topological order, including most notably the fractional quantum Hall effect. Despite its ubiquitous use as a theoretical tool, directly realizing flux attachment in […]