A Businesslike Name for a ‘High-Performing Machine’

Newswise —  NEWPORT NEWS, VA – The latest addition to the computational arsenal of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility is an extraordinary machine with the…

Discovery of van Hove singularities could lead to novel materials with desirable quantum properties

Scientists develop novel high-fidelity quantum computing gate

Photon qubits challenge AI, enabling more accurate quantum computing without error-correction techniques

SLAC celebrates 50 years of Nobel-winning discovery in particle physics

Webstory:  https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2024-11-20-slac-celebrates-50-years-nobel-winning-discovery-particle-physics   On Nov. 11, 1974, two research teams rocked the particle physics world when they announced they had independently discovered a new subatomic particle – the J/psi. The…

Using matter waves, scientists unveil novel collective behaviors in quantum optics

Representation of an array of matter-wave emitters held in an optical lattice tube (atomic excitations in red, emitted matter waves in blue, and effective vacuum coupling in green), along with…

Experiment suggests quantum computers can coordinate actions of moving devices

Physicists explain how fractional charge in pentalayer graphene could work

Hartree-Fock (HF) determined quantum metric, and trace condition, accompanied by the layer-4,5 occupation number. The total weight on the other 3 layers combined is ≈ 5%. The mean and variance…

A new method for creating a quantum gas

Artistic illustration of bosenova. Credit: National Taiwan University Cooling atomic gases to the quantum regime often involves time-consuming steps. Electromagnetically induced transparency now achieves quantum degeneracy with high efficiency. Quantum…

Physicists create the first fully mechanical qubit

The device consists of a sapphire chip with a superconducting qubit (gray rectangles, left) on top of another that acts as a mechanical oscillator (gray dot, right). Credit: Uwe Von…