Supercomputer simulates quantum chip in unprecedented detail

A coalition of researchers used almost all of the Perlmutter supercomputer’s 7,168 NVIDIA GPUs over a period of 24 hours to capture the structure and function of a multi-layered chip.…

Raman quantum memory demonstrates near-unity performance

The team’s experimental setup. Credit: APS, Physical Review Letters (2025). DOI: 10.1103/kbwj-md9n. Over the past decades, quantum physicists and engineers have developed numerous technologies that harness the principles of quantum…

HD⁺ ions cooled to 18 mK yield most precise vibrational-rotational spectra to date

Synergistically cooled Be⁺-HD⁺ ion crystal and molecular dynamics simulation. Credit: APM A research team from the Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology (APM) of the Chinese Academy of…

Reading a quantum clock costs more energy than running it, study finds

Graphic illustrating the difference in energy between running a quantum clock (left: a single electron hopping between two nanoscale regions) and reading the ticks of the clock (right). The energy…

Controlling triple quantum dots in a zinc oxide semiconductor

How sound and light act alike—and not—at the smallest scale

The setup of the experiment in the optical lab, with the semiconductor crystal containing the double slits in the centre. Credit: Leiden University A world-famous light experiment from 1801 has…

Ultrafast electron diffraction captures atomic layers twisting in response to light

Optimal scaling for magic state distillation in quantum computing achieved

On-chip cryptographic protocol lets quantum computers self-verify results amid hardware noise

The Quantinuum H1 Quantum Processing Unit, used in the recent study. Credit: Quantinuum. Quantum computers, machines that process information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, could outperform classical computers on some optimization…

Stable molecule trapped with deep ultraviolet light for the first time

The experimental setup: Magneto-optical trap for laser cooling of aluminum monofluoride (AlF). Credit: FHI Researchers from the Department of Molecular Physics at the Fritz Haber Institute have demonstrated the first…