Topological quantum states in Graphene created by laser pulses
Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) scientists have discovered a pioneering laser-driven approach to generate a topological state in graphene.
Thorium Superconductivity: new high-temperature superconductor discovered
Scientists have succeeded in synthesizing thorium decahydride (ThH10), a new superconducting material with the very high critical temperature of 161 kelvins.
Quantum optics optimizes measurement of brain activity
Researchers are designing a brain-imaging device that uses a new type of sensor placed on the surface of a person’s head.
Qnami helps revealing new candidate for spintronics
In a recent publication in Nature Materials”, a group of French researchers was able to image and understand a novel type of chiral spin-textures occurring on BiFeO3’s domain-walls, which had never been observed before. One […]
“Spooky” quantum tunneling observed
A molecule of ammonia, NH3, typically exists as an umbrella shape, a very stable structure that would normally be expected to require a large amount of energy to be inverted. Researchers at MIT and Seoul […]
Honeywell in the Quantum race: high fidelity and trapped ions
Honeywell is bringing its quantum computing hardware to Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing service.
Josephson penetration depth in coplanar junctions based on 2D materials
Researchers at Aalto University have yet reported ultrawide Josephson junctions (up to 80 μm wide) based on chemical-vapor-deposition graphene where the critical current was found to be uniformly distributed in the direction perpendicular to the current.
Evading Heisenberg isn’t easy
Researchers unravel novel dynamics in the interaction between light and mechanical motion with significant implications for quantum measurements designed to evade the influence of the detector in the notorious ‘back action limit’ problem.
Researchers create blueprint for ‘quantum battery’ that doesn’t lose charge
Scientists from the universities of Alberta and Toronto developed a blueprint for a new quantum battery that doesn’t leak charge.
Structured light promises path to faster, more secure communications
Researchers at American Institute of Physics and University of Witwatersrand in South Africa now review the progress being made in using structured light in quantum protocols to create a larger encoding alphabet, stronger security and […]
Quantum Benchmark supports development of Google’s world-leading quantum computers
Quantum Benchmark, the leading provider of solutions to characterize and reduce errors in quantum computing, is pleased to announce its partnership with the Google Quantum AI Lab during a milestone moment for quantum computing. This […]
Fault-tolerant Quantum Error Correction (QEC) on near-term quantum processors
Fault-tolerant (FT) computation by using quantum error correction (QEC) is essential for realizing large-scale quantum algorithms. Devices are expected to have enough qubits to demonstrate aspects of fault tolerance in the near future. However, these […]
Secure quantum communication in the microwave band in a local quantum network
An international team headed by physicists from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has, for the first time ever, experimentally implemented secure quantum communication in the microwave band in a local quantum network, using a […]
Building single-atom qubits under a microscope
IBM Research made a breakthrough in controlling the quantum behavior of individual atoms, demonstrating a versatile new building block for quantum computation. This is the first time a single-atom qubit has been achieved using a Scanning […]
Extracting hidden quantum information from a light source
Researchers at ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences report on a technique to extract the quantum information hidden in an image that carries both classical and quantum information. This technique opens a new pathway for quantum […]
About the Neutrino’s tiny mass…
Though this information is not directly related to Quantum technology, we think you’ll be delightfully pleased to read it… About a thousand trillion of these ghostly Neutrinos particles pass through our body every second but […]
UC Santa Barbara/Google: Demonstration of the power of 53 qubits
Researchers at Google and UC Santa Barbara have made good on their claim to quantum supremacy. Using 53 entangled qubits, their Sycamore computer has taken on and solved a problem considered intractable for classical computers. […]
A tiny cavity leads to a strong interaction between light and matter
Researchers at University of Basel have succeeded in creating an efficient quantum-mechanical light-matter interface using a microscopic cavity. Within this cavity, a single photon is emitted and absorbed up to 10 times by an artificial […]
IBM: On “Quantum Supremacy”
A very interesting paper from IBM Quantum Computing Team as an answer to the famous leaked preprint of Google regarding quantum supremacy.
Weaving quantum processors out of laser light
Researchers at Australian Centre for Quantum Computation & Communication Technology open a new avenue to quantum computing with a breakthrough experiment: a large-scale quantum processor prototype made entirely of light. The research was published in Science today […]
Blanket of light may give better quantum computers
Researchers at Technical University of Denmark describe how they have created a ‘carpet‘ of thousands of quantum-mechanically entangled light pulses at room temperature . The discovery has the potential to pave the way for more […]
Stretched photons recover lost interference
Researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) and the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science (QuICS) have stretched out multiple photons and turned three distinct pulses into overlapping quantum waves. The work, which […]
Quantum physics: Ménage à trois photon-style
Researchers at the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, have discovered a new quantum property: by placing 3 pairs of photons in a network, it is possible to entangle them and create new ultra-strong correlations. Entanglement […]
Qubits diversity may be key to reducing errors in Quantum Computing
The processing in quantum-based machines is noisy, which produces error rates dramatically higher than those of silicon-based computers. So quantum operations are repeated thousands of times to make the correct answer stands out statistically from […]
Controlling superconducting regions within an exotic metal
Researchers at EPFL‘s Laboratory of Quantum Materials (QMAT) have created a metallic micro-device in which they can define and tune patterns of superconductivity. Their discovery holds great promise for quantum technologies of the future. The […]