Simulating quantum magnetism with a digital quantum computer

Optics of the H2 quantum computer. Credit: Quantinuum. Quantum computers, which process information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, have the potential to outperform classical computers in some optimization and computational tasks.…

Researchers demonstrate the UK’s first long-distance ultra-secure communication over a quantum network

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers have successfully demonstrated the UK’s first long-distance ultra-secure transfer of data over a quantum communications network, including the UK’s first long-distance quantum-secured video call. The…

A new dissipation-based method to probe quantum correlations

Illustration of the dissipative processes in the strongly-correlated quantum many-body system. Credit: Zhao et al. Quantum systems are known to be prone to dissipation, a process that entails the irreversible…

Scientists achieve high-efficiency single-photon source above loss-tolerant threshold

The schematic diagram of the single-photon source system and the efficiency of the single-photon source surpassing the loss tolerance threshold. (Image by Pan et al.). Credit: USTC Research teams from…

Hot Schrödinger cat states created

In Erwin Schrödinger’s thought experiment, it is a cat that is alive and dead at the same time. Credit: University of Innsbruck/Harald Ritsch Quantum states can only be prepared and…

Infrared heavy-metal-free quantum dots deliver sensitive and fast sensors for eye-safe LIDAR applications

Physicists uncover electronic interactions mediated via spin waves

Rendition of the discovery where the excitons (e–h pairs) interact via ripples in the magnetic structure akin to an array of spinning tops generating a wave that affects each other…

Error correction method reduces photon requirements for quantum computing

Microwave pulses can control ion-molecule reactions at near absolute zero

Credit: Physical Review Letters (2025). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.123401 To demonstrate their proposed approach, the researchers first cooled molecules down to their rotational ground state. In this state, the molecules are known…

Scientists unveil new way to electrically control spin for ultra-compact devices using altermagnetic quantum materials

Electrical current flowing in an altermagnetic bilayer CrS can become spin-polarized using an external electric field, thus paving a way towards all-electrical spintronic devices for future computing technology. Credit: SUTD…