So far, the Garching scientists have been able to manipulate up to six rubidium atoms as quantum bits in the optical resonator with the light tweezers. To make them visible,…
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Oxygen Tweaking May be Key to Accelerator Optimization
Newswise — NEWPORT NEWS, VA – Particle accelerators are pricey, but their cost comes with good reason: These one-of-a-kind, state-of-the-art machines are intricately designed and constructed to help us solve…
Physicists discover a way to imprint a previously unseen geometrical form of chirality onto electrons
Schematic representation of the experimental setup used to shape electrons into chiral coils of mass and charge. Credit: Dr. Yiqi Fang, University of Konstanz Have you ever placed the palm…
New method achieves tenfold increase in quantum coherence time via destructive interference of correlated noise
Schematic representation of destructive interference of cross-correlated noise, control sequences and experimental setup. Credit: Physical Review Letters (2024). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.223601 Key achievements of this new strategy include: Tenfold increase in…
New method could yield fast, cross-country quantum network
To make a quantum network a reality, researchers in Jiang Group at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering have proposed building long quantum channels using vacuum-sealed tubes…
A new approach to realize quantum mechanical squeezing
Schematic of nonclassical mechanical states from a resonator–qubit combination. A transmon qubit couples capacitively to acoustic mechanical modes of a separate sapphire slab, one of which is represented as a…
SLAC researchers pioneer new methods in ultrafast science for sharper molecular movies
Newswise — Imagine being able to watch the inner workings of a chemical reaction or a material as it changes and reacts to its environment – that’s the sort of…
Searching for dark matter with the coldest quantum detectors in the world
The experiment is at about a 10000th of a degree above absolute zero in a special refrigerator ; Dr. Autti (right). Credit: Lancaster University One of the greatest mysteries of…
