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May 13, 2020
Photon-assisted tunneling signatures in Majorana wires
Researchers at the University of Copenhagen and Microsoft Quantum Lab Copenhagen have recently carried out a study investigating the potential of Majorana zero modes, zero-energy quasiparticle states that can be…
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May 13, 2020
QKD provides security in power grid
A team from the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge and Los Alamos national laboratories led a QKD demonstration in power grid hosted by EPB, a community-based utility and telecommunications…
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May 12, 2020
Single-atom and single-electron transistors
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues at the University of Maryland have developed a step-by-step recipe to produce the atomic-scale devices. Using these…
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May 12, 2020
VTT to acquire Finland’s first quantum computer
VTT, a Finnish, fully state-owned company, is launching a project to acquire Finland’s first quantum computer. The first phase of this three-phase project is seeking to bolster Finland’s ability to…
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May 11, 2020
Irish Centre for HPC leads an international project to develop quantum simulation tools
The Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC) which delivers complex compute solutions to Irish HEAs, Enterprises and the Public Sector on behalf of the State, announced that it is leading a novel…
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May 11, 2020
Controlling quantumness in cold atoms
In one, two, and three-particle systems, actions that happen in one spot can strongly influence atoms far away.  Researchers from the Quantum Systems Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science…
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May 11, 2020
Quantum radar prototype demonstrated
Scientists at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria) have demonstrated a new type of detection technology called microwave quantum illumination that utilizes entangled microwave photons as a…
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May 11, 2020
Tiny twists mapped in “magic-angle” Graphene
In 2018, MIT scientists led by Pablo Jarillo-Herrero and Yuan Cao discovered that when two sheets of graphene are stacked together at a slightly offset “magic angle”, the new twisted graphene structure…
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May 8, 2020
Laser loop couples quantum systems over a distance
Researchers from the University of Basel, the Swiss Nanoscience Institute (SNI) and University of Hanover have succeeded in creating strong coupling between quantum systems over a great distance. They accomplished…
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May 7, 2020
SiC can boast some of the quantum merits of diamond
Researchers at the University of Science and Technology in Hefei and Wuhan University in China have demonstrated SiC can boast some of the quantum merits of diamond (nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers)…
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May 7, 2020
Dynamics of spin thermalization
A group of researchers based at The City College of New York (CCNY) provide new insights on the dynamics of spin thermalization at the nanoscale. Understanding why this happens and how it can…
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May 7, 2020
Superconductivity to the Edge
A discovery that long eluded physicists has been detected in a laboratory at Princeton. A team of physicists detected superconducting currents — the flow of electrons without wasting energy —…
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May 7, 2020
Chemistry quantum simulations on Google Sycamore
As the search continues for useful applications of noisy intermediate scale quantum devices, variational simulations of fermionic systems remain one of the most promising directions. A team at Google AI…
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May 7, 2020
Microsoft researchers solve 20-year-old problems in quantum computing
A team of researchers at Microsoft discovered a breakthrough in two common problems that have been open for over twenty years. Specifically, the team revisited the question of the largest possible quantum speedups…
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