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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