Quantum Surprise: Atoms Producing Entangled Photon Pairs
Researchers at the Humboldt University of Berlin, partners of the DAALI project, have demonstrated a surprising effect present in the fluorescent light of a single…
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Journey to Quantum Supremacy: First Steps Toward Realizing Mechanical Qubits
Quantum information (QI) processing has the potential to revolutionize technology, offering unparalleled computational power, safety, and detection sensitivity. Qubits, the fundamental units of hardware for…
Quantum Materials Unveiled: A New X-Ray Imaging Technique
Using light to create transient phases in quantum materials is a novel method for engineering new properties like superconductivity or nanoscale topological defects, however, visualizing…
Schrödinger’s Bewilderment – Quantum Theory Needs Complex Numbers
Physicists construct theories to describe nature. Let us explain it through an analogy with something that we can do in our everyday life, like going…
Interband Collective Excitations: Twisted Bilayer Graphene Dances With Light
An international team of researchers reports in Nature Physics on how light and electrons move in concert in the material when illuminated with infrared light….
A Step Closer to the Quantum Internet: Entanglement of Two Multimode Quantum Memories
ICFO researchers report in Nature on having achieved, for the first time, entanglement of two multimode quantum memories located in different labs separated by 10 meters,…
Quantum Entanglement of 15 Trillion Atoms at 450 Kelvin With “Surprising Results”
Quantum entanglement is a process by which microscopic objects like electrons or atoms lose their individuality to become better coordinated with each other. Entanglement is…
Using the Universe’s Coldest Material in a New Search for Dark Matter
Scientists have been able to observe the universe and determine that about 80% of its mass appears to be “dark matter,” which exerts a gravitational…
New Zoo of Previously Unobserved States in Twisted Bi-Layer Graphene
A Plethora of States in Magic-Angle Graphene A team of ICFO researchers used twisted bi-layer graphene to unveil a new zoo of previously unobserved states,…
New Technique for Studying Ultrafast Events in Individual Quantum Dots
Ultrafast Stimulated Emission Microscopy of Single Nanocrystals The ability to investigate the dynamics of single particle at the nano-scale and femtosecond level remained an unfathomed…
New Quantum Enhanced Microscope Extracts Hidden Quantum Information
Current super-resolution microscopes or microarray laser scanning technology are known because of their high sensitivities and very good resolutions. However, they implement high light power…
Roadmap: Silicon Technology Boost With Graphene and 2D Materials
Silicon semiconductor technology has done marvels for the advancement of our society, which has benefited tremendously from its versatile use and amazing capabilities. The…