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May 15, 2024

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A Simple Quantum Internet With Significant Possibilities

May 15, 2024 — It's one thing to dream up a quantum internet that could send hacker-proof information around the world via photons superimposed in different quantum states. It's quite another to physically show it's possible. That's exactly what physicists have ...

Speedy, Secure, Sustainable -- That's the Future of Telecom

May 14, 2024 — A new device that can process information using a small amount of light could enable energy-efficient and secure ...

New Quantum Sensing Scheme Could Lead to Enhanced High-Precision Nanoscopic Techniques

May 3, 2024 — Researchers have unveiled a quantum sensing scheme that achieves the pinnacle of quantum sensitivity in measuring the transverse displacement between two interfering ...

New Super-Pure Silicon Chip Opens Path to Powerful Quantum Computers

May 7, 2024 — Researchers have invented a breakthrough technique for manufacturing highly purified silicon that brings powerful quantum computers a big step ...

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Experiment Opens Door for Millions of Qubits on One Chip

May 6, 2024 — Researchers have achieved the first controllable interaction between two hole spin qubits in a conventional silicon transistor. The breakthrough opens up the possibility of integrating millions of ...

Scientists Test for Quantum Nature of Gravity

May 2, 2024 — A new study reports on a deep new probe into the interface between the theories of gravity and quantum mechanics, using ultra-high energy neutrino particles detected by a particle detector set deep ...

Scientists Show That There Is Indeed an 'Entropy' of Quantum Entanglement

May 1, 2024 — Scientists have shown, through probabilistic calculations, that there is indeed, as had been hypothesized, a rule of 'entropy' for the phenomenon of quantum entanglement. This finding could help ...

Physicists Arrange Atoms in Extremely Close Proximity

May 2, 2024 — Physicists developed a technique to arrange atoms in much closer proximity than previously possible, down to 50 nanometers. The group plans to use the method to manipulate atoms into configurations ...

Significant New Discovery in Teleportation Research -- Noise Can Improve the Quality of Quantum Teleportation

May 2, 2024 — Researchers succeeded in conducting an almost perfect quantum teleportation despite the presence of noise that usually disrupts the transfer of ...

Researchers Unlock Potential of 2D Magnetic Devices for Future Computing

May 1, 2024 — A research team has created an innovative method to control tiny magnetic states within ultrathin, two-dimensional van der Waals magnets -- a process akin to how flipping a light switch controls a ...

Physicists Build New Device That Is Foundation for Quantum Computing

May 1, 2024 — Scientists have adapted a device called a microwave circulator for use in quantum computers, allowing them for the first time to precisely tune the exact degree of nonreciprocity between a qubit, the ...

Lead-Vacancy Centers in Diamond as Building Blocks for Large-Scale Quantum Networks

Apr. 24, 2024 — A lead-vacancy (PbV) center in diamond has been developed as a quantum emitter for large-scale quantum networks by researchers. This innovative color ...

The End of the Quantum Tunnel

Apr. 26, 2024 — Quantum mechanical effects such as radioactive decay, or more generally: 'tunneling', display intriguing mathematical patterns. Researchers now show that a 40-year-old mathematical discovery can be ...

From Disorder to Order: Flocking Birds and 'Spinning' Particles

Apr. 26, 2024 — Researchers have demonstrated that ferromagnetism, an ordered state of atoms, can be induced by increasing particle motility and that repulsive forces between atoms are sufficient to maintain it. The ...

Scientists Tune the Entanglement Structure in an Array of Qubits

Apr. 24, 2024 — A new technique can generate batches of certain entangled states in a quantum processor. This advance could help scientists study the fundamental quantum property of entanglement and enable them to ...

Condensed Matter Physics: Novel One-Dimensional Superconductor

Apr. 24, 2024 — In a significant development in the field of superconductivity, researchers have successfully achieved robust superconductivity in high magnetic fields using a newly created one-dimensional (1D) ...

Manipulating the Geometry of 'Electron Universe' in Magnets

Apr. 23, 2024 — Researchers have discovered a unique property, the quantum metric, within magnetic materials, altering the 'electron universe' geometry. This distinct electric signal challenges traditional ...

Perfecting the View on a Crystal's Imperfection

Apr. 23, 2024 — Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has gained widespread attention and application across various quantum fields and technologies because it contains single-photon emmiters (SPEs), along with a layered ...

Compact Quantum Light Processing

Apr. 19, 2024 — An international collaboration of researchers has achieved a significant breakthrough in quantum technology, with the successful demonstration of quantum interference among several single photons ...

Crucial Connection for 'Quantum Internet' Made for the First Time

Apr. 16, 2024 — Researchers have produced, stored, and retrieved quantum information for the first time, a critical step in quantum ...

Quantum Precision: A New Kind of Resistor

Apr. 15, 2024 — Researchers have developed a method that can improve the performance of quantum resistance standards. It's based on a quantum phenomenon called Quantum Anomalous Hall ...

Breakthrough Promises Secure Quantum Computing at Home

Apr. 11, 2024 — The full power of next-generation quantum computing could soon be harnessed by millions of individuals and companies, thanks to a breakthrough guaranteeing security and privacy. This advance promises ...

Quantum Breakthrough When Light Makes Materials Magnetic

Apr. 10, 2024 — The potential of quantum technology is huge but is today largely limited to the extremely cold environments of laboratories. Now, researchers have succeeded in demonstrating for the very first time ...

New Method of Measuring Qubits Promises Ease of Scalability in a Microscopic Package

Apr. 10, 2024 — The path to quantum supremacy is made challenging by the issues associated with scaling up the number of qubits. One key problem is the way that qubits are measured. A research group introduces a new ...

New Technique Lets Scientists Create Resistance-Free Electron Channels

Apr. 9, 2024 — A team has taken the first atomic-resolution images and demonstrated electrical control of a chiral interface state -- an exotic quantum phenomenon that could help researchers advance quantum ...

Will the Convergence of Light and Matter in Janus Particles Transcend Performance Limitations in the Optical Display Industry?

Apr. 8, 2024 — Team successfully exerted electrical control over polaritons, hybridized light-matter particles, at room ...

Chemical Reactions Can Scramble Quantum Information as Well as Black Holes

Apr. 5, 2024 — A team of researchers has shown that molecules can be as formidable at scrambling quantum information as black holes by combining mathematical tools from black hole physics and chemical physics and ...

Progress in Quantum Physics: Researchers Tame Superconductors

Apr. 4, 2024 — An international team including researchers from the University of W rzburg has succeeded in creating a special state of superconductivity. This discovery could advance the development of quantum ...

100 Kilometers of Quantum-Encrypted Transfer

Apr. 2, 2024 — Researchers have taken a big step towards securing information against hacking. They have succeeded in using quantum encryption to securely transfer information 100 kilometers via fiber optic cable ...

A New Type of Cooling for Quantum Simulators

Mar. 27, 2024 — Quantum simulators are quantum systems that can be controlled exceptionally well. They can be used to indirectly learn something about other quantum systems, which cannot be experimented on so ...

Bullseye! Accurately Centering Quantum Dots Within Photonic Chips

Mar. 26, 2024 — Researchers have now developed standards and calibrations for optical microscopes that allow quantum dots to be aligned with the center of a photonic component to within an error of 10 to 20 ...

Scientists Deliver Quantum Algorithm to Develop New Materials and Chemistry

Mar. 25, 2024 — Scientists published the Cascaded Variational Quantum Eigensolver (CVQE) algorithm in a recent article, expected to become a powerful tool to investigate the physical properties in electronic ...

The World Is One Step Closer to Secure Quantum Communication on a Global Scale

Mar. 25, 2024 — Researchers have brought together two Nobel prize-winning research concepts to advance the field of quantum communication. Scientists can now efficiently produce nearly perfect entangled photon pairs ...

Quantum Interference Could Lead to Smaller, Faster, and More Energy-Efficient Transistors

Mar. 25, 2024 — Scientists made a single-molecule transistor using quantum interference to control electron flow. This new design offers high on/off ratio and stability, potentially leading to smaller, faster, and ...