New upgrade will supercharge atomic vision of the world’s most powerful X-ray laser

SLAC received the second LCLS-II-HE cryomodule from Jefferson Lab on March 5, 2024. In Jefferson Lab fashion, it was decorated and delivered to celebrate the nearest holiday—this time, St. Patrick’s…

Exploiting quantum squeezing to enhance precision of measurements in systems with multiple factors

A visual comparison between the familiar act of squeezing a balloon and the concept of quantum squeezing in a sensor. Credit: Tohoku University Quantum squeezing is a concept in quantum…

Security protocol leverages quantum mechanics to shield data from attackers during cloud-based computation

Lifting the veil of topological censorship

Schematic picture of the experimental setup showing a Chern insulator (purple) with attached electrodes (gold) and a SQUID magnetometer (shown as a loop on top of the insulator), which allows…

A versatile approach to realize quantum-enhanced metrology with large Fock states

Team studies the emergence of fluctuating hydrodynamics in chaotic quantum systems

Fluorescence images of a quantum many-body system consisting of cesium atoms in an optical lattice in an initial ordered configuration (left) and a time-evolved random configuration. By studying the growth…

Controlling light while measuring trapped ion qubits

Physicists use quantum correlations of photon pairs to hide images from standard cameras

Fig. 1. Experimental results. a, Experimental setup. b, Intensity image on the camera and c, correlation image. The intensity image reveals no information about the object, which can nevertheless be…

Artificial Intelligence Helps Produce Clean Water

Newswise — About 2.2 billion people, more than a quarter of the world’s population, lack access to safe, managed drinking water, and about half of the world’s population experiences severe…

Even the heaviest particles experience the usual quantum weirdness, new experiment shows