An optical fiber link to the ALPHA experiment at CERN’s Antimatter Factory will assist in precise measurements of the properties of antihydrogen. Credit: CERN A new optical fiber link between…
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Topological quantum processor uses Majorana zero modes for fault-tolerant computing
Majorana 1, the eight-qubit topological quantum processor unveiled at Microsoft Station Q’s 2025 conference. Credit: Microsoft In a leap forward for quantum computing, a Microsoft team led by UC Santa…
Research demonstrates readout technique for superconducting qubits
by Rigetti Computing Inc. Microwave qubit readout. Credit: Nature Physics (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41567-024-02742-3 This is where microwave-to-optical transduction comes into play, a field dedicated to the coherent conversion of microwave…
Newly realized nuclear-spin dark state promises reduced quantum decoherence
Two electrons (blue) in a state gate-defined quantum dot were used to create a nuclear-spin dark state. The dark state is a collective state of the nuclear spins (green) that…
Microsoft joins quantum race with breakthrough chip
Credit: Microsoft Tech giant Microsoft unveiled a new computer chip on Wednesday that it says could transform everything from fighting pollution to developing new medicines, joining Google and IBM in…
Germanium detectors help ORNL physicists unlock the mysteries of the universe
BYLINE: Chris Driver Ever since physicist Ernest Rutherford discovered the atomic nucleus in 1911, studying its structure and behavior has remained a challenging task. More than a century later, even…
A new way to observe electrons in motion
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Electrons oscillate around the nucleus of an atom on extremely short timescales, typically completing a cycle in just a few hundred attoseconds. Because of their ultrafast…
Digging deeper into light-assisted atomic collisions
Exploiting the hyperfine structure in repulsive light-assisted collisions (LAC) on a 87-Rubidium atom pair in an optical tweezer. Credit: Steven Burrows/Steven Pampel and Cindy Regal When atoms collide, their exact…
A newly proposed protocol to boost privacy in quantum sensor networks
Schematic of a quantum sensor network. Unknown parameters are spatially distributed across the network. Metrologically, the objective is to estimate a function of these parameters, such as their average value.…
