Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain European researchers are developing quantum computers using light and glass, in a collaboration that promises breakthroughs in computing power, battery technology and scientific discovery. Giulia Acconcia…
Category: Quantum Physics
Improving randomness may be the key to more powerful quantum computers
The circuit construction used to prove the paper’s main result. Each block represents a quantum circuit acting on a small patch of the entire system. Credit: Thomas Schuster, Jonas Haferkamp,…
Physicists create tunable system for enhanced quantum sensing
A table top experiment typical of the setup. The size is more or less equal to the size of an ordinary dining table. Credit: Ola Jakup Joensen Researchers at the…
Quantum equivalent of thermodynamics’ second law discovered for entanglement manipulation
Illustration of an entanglement battery. The battery allows reversible interconversion between any two entangled states. Credit: American Physical Society Just over 200 years after French engineer and physicist Sadi Carnot…
Nonlinear currents emerge in symmetry-broken materials
Artistic representation of the breakdown of Ohm’s law and the resulting nonlinear effects in a non-centrosymmetric crystal. Credit: Elhuyar Fundazioa In a review just published in Nature Materials, researchers take…
Strong magnetic fields flip angular momentum dynamics in magnetovortical matter
Credit: Tokyo University of Science Angular momentum is a fundamental quantity in physics that describes the rotational motion of objects. In quantum physics, it encompasses both the intrinsic spin of…
Quantum protocol achieves Heisenberg-limited measurement precision with robust spin states
Quantum wavepacket dynamics depicting the collective motion of an ensemble of identical spins subject to periodic modulation in their interaction strength. Panels (b) and (c) indicate the generation of highly…
Companies are racing to develop the first useful quantum computer—ultracold neutral atoms could be the key
Credit: CC0 Public Domain The race to build the first useful quantum computer is on and may revolutionize the world with brand new capabilities, from medicine to freight logistics. Tech…
