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…

New route to quantum spin liquid materials discovered

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new route to materials with complex disordered magnetic properties at the quantum level has been produced by scientists for the first time. The material, based…

Theoretical model explains the anomalous properties of water in extreme conditions

A proposed experiment to test whether gravity behaves as a quantum entity when measured

Quantum computing researchers develop an 8-photon qubit chip

Package Image & Conceptual Chart of a Recon Photonics 4-Qubit Chip. Credit: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute(ETRI) A group of South Korean researchers has successfully developed an integrated quantum circuit…

How ‘clean’ does a quantum computing test facility need to be?

The electronic connections that record signals from experimental superconducting qubits must be ultra-clean to avoid stray environmental radiation interrupting quantum coherence. Credit: Eric Francavilla | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Now…

Researchers demonstrate universal control of a quantum dot-based system with four singlet-triplet qubits

Universal single-qubit control of four singlet-triplet qubits. Credit: Nature Nanotechnology (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41565-024-01817-9 The researchers’ system is comprised of a 2 x 4 array of germanium quantum dots, forming a…

Scientists demonstrate controlled transfer of atoms using coherent tunneling between optical tweezers

A zoom-in through the same side window shows the windows both above and below. Credit: Technion An experimental setup built at the Technion Faculty of Physics demonstrates the transfer of…

Toward a more efficient ‘quantum hard drive’

Implementing topologically ordered time crystals on quantum processors