A Playground for Exotic Physics, A Platform for Stable Quantum Computing
Recent research settles a long-standing debate. Move over Godzilla vs. King Kong — this is the crossover event you’ve been waiting for. Well, at least…
Quantum Computing
Random Hardware Errors Make a Quantum Computing Future Unlikely
Google announced this fall to much fanfare that it had demonstrated “quantum supremacy” – that is, it performed a specific quantum computation far faster than…
New Way to Split and Sum Photons With Silicon Is Breakthrough for Quantum Computing, Solar Energy
A team of researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and the University of California, Riverside have found a way to produce a long-hypothesized…
Quantum Computers Learn to Check Their Own Answers
Quantum computers can potentially answer questions beyond the capabilities of classical computing – but their answers might not be reliable University of Warwick scientists have…
MIT Magnetic Wave Circuit Step Toward Highly Efficient Spintronic Computers
Circuit design offers a path to “spintronic” devices that use little electricity and generate practically no heat. MIT researchers have devised a novel circuit design…
New Nanoantenna Technology Developed to Harvest Light
University of Illinois Researchers Develop New Framework for Nanoantenna Light Absorption Harnessing light’s energy into nanoscale volumes requires novel engineering approaches to overcome a fundamental…
Kick-Starting Moore’s Law With Breakthrough ‘Synthetic’ Method for Making Microchips
Breakthrough method for processing nanomaterials heralds advances in quantum computing, nanotechnology. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have developed a new method for producing atomically-thin semiconducting…
Military-Grade Communications With Quantum Chip 1,000 Times Smaller Than Current Setups
Researchers at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a quantum communication chip that is 1,000 times smaller than current quantum setups, but offers…
Light-Based ‘Tractor Beam’ Precisely Assembles Nanoscale Structures
Modern construction is a precision endeavor. Builders must use components manufactured to meet specific standards — such as beams of a desired composition or rivets…
Summit Supercomputer Harnessed for Quantum Supremacy Milestone (Video)
A joint research team from Google Inc., NASA Ames Research Center, and the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has demonstrated that a quantum…
Quantum Supremacy Achieved by NASA and Google
Google, in partnership with NASA and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has demonstrated the ability to compute in seconds what would take even the largest and…
Blanket of Entangled Light Pulses for Larger and More Powerful Quantum Computers
Researchers from DTU Physics describe in an article published on October 18, 2019, in Science, how — by simple means — they have created a…
Prototype Large-Scale Quantum Processor Made Entirely of Light
Researchers open a new avenue to quantum computing with a breakthrough experiment: a large-scale quantum processor made entirely of light. An international team of scientists…
New Breakthrough for Connecting Future Quantum Computers Into a Global Network
Researchers, led by Delft University of Technology, have made two steps in the conversion of quantum states between signals in the microwave and optical domains….
New Superconducting Material Discovered That Could Power Quantum Computers of the Future
Quantum computers with the ability to perform complex calculations, encrypt data more securely and more quickly predict the spread of viruses, may be within closer…
Nanoscale Radiation Detector 100x Faster – Boosts Quantum Technology
Radiation detector with the lowest noise in the world boosts quantum work. The nanoscale radiation detector is a hundred times faster than its predecessors, and…
New Tunable Optical Chips Can Be Used As Building-Blocks for Next Generation Quantum Computers
Researchers demonstrate first fully integrated silicon carbide optical switch that can be thermally tuned for different functions. Researchers have created a silicon carbide (SiC) photonic…
“Closer to Our Daily Life” – Scientists Observe a Single Quantum Vibration at Room Temperature
Studying a common material under ordinary conditions, researchers bring quantum behavior “closer to our daily life.” When a guitar string is plucked, it vibrates as…