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April 21, 2020
Photonic microwave generation using on-chip optical frequency combs
An EPFL research team led by Tobias J. Kippenberg has now demonstrated integrated soliton microcombs with repetition rates as low as 10 GHz. This was achieved by significantly lowering the…
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April 21, 2020
Optically-controlled quantum computation
Scientists at Ames Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and the University of Alabama Birmingham have discovered a light-induced switching mechanism in a Dirac semimetal. The mechanism establishes a new way to…
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April 21, 2020
Quantum entanglement offers unprecedented precision for GPS
University of Arizona engineering and optical sciences researchers, in collaboration with engineers from General Dynamics Mission Systems, demonstrate how a combination of two techniques (radio frequency photonics sensing and quantum…
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April 20, 2020
Europe's first quantum computer in the cloud: Quantum Inspire
Minister Ingrid van Engelshoven and European Commissioner Mariya Gabriel launched Europe’s first public quantum computing platform: ‘Quantum Inspire’. The platform was developed by Delft-based QuTech, a collaboration between TU Delft…
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April 20, 2020
CaixaBank quantum classifies customers according to their credit risk
CaixaBank has applied a hybrid computing framework — which combines quantum computing and conventional computing in different phases of the calculation process — to classify credit risk profiles. To do…
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April 20, 2020
New cooling technique to nanokelvin temperatures
MIT physicists have found a way to cool molecules of sodium lithium down to 220 nanokelvins, just a hair above absolute zero. They did so by applying a technique called collisional cooling,…
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April 20, 2020
Coupled Quantum Dots may allow to store quantum information
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have for the first time created and imaged a novel pair of quantum dots. Quantum dots are…
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April 20, 2020
Scientists explore underwater quantum links for submarines
Underwater quantum links are possible across 30 meters (100 feet) of turbulent water, scientists have shown. Such findings could help to one day secure quantum communications for submarines. Researchers have…
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April 17, 2020
Nippon Steel Corporation and Cambridge Quantum Computing collaboration
Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC) has announced working with Nippon Steel Corporation on two innovative and ground breaking projects that will provide essential tools to be used towards the utilization of…
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April 17, 2020
ColdQuanta awarded contract of up to $7.4M from DARPA
ColdQuanta has been selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop a scalable, cold-atom-based quantum computing hardware and software platform that can demonstrate quantum advantage on real-world…
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April 16, 2020
SwissQuantumPi: A Quantum Simulator on Raspberry Pi
In 2016, a brilliant Indian software engineer, Tinniam V Ganesh, released QCSimulator, its 5-qubit quantum simulator based on R. Raspberry Pi 4 last release provides an amazing Quad Core Cortex-A72 (ARM…
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April 16, 2020
A quantum metasurface that can simultaneously control multiple properties of light
A research team led by Mikhail Lukin at Harvard University has recently proposed a new type of metasurface that can control both the spatiotemporal and quantum properties of transmitted and reflected light. The…
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April 16, 2020
Light from stretchable sheets of atoms for quantum technologies
A team of Australian scientists from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and the Australian National University (ANU) believe they have developed a way to address a decades-long challenge in…
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April 16, 2020
Speeding-up quantum computing using giant atomic ions
Different physical systems can be used to make a quantum computer. Trapped ions that form a crystal have led the research field for years, but when the system is scaled up to…
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April 16, 2020
Hot qubits for practical quantum computers
Researchers at UNSW Sydney have addressed the problem of merging qubits and classical electronic circuits that requires multi-million-dollar refrigeration. The researchers’ proof-of-concept quantum processor unit cell, on a silicon chip,…
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