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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