Engineers advance toward a fault-tolerant quantum computer

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In the future, quantum computers could rapidly simulate new materials or help scientists develop faster machine‐learning models, opening the door to many new possibilities. But these…

New protocol counteracts the limitation of decoherence

The qubit state decays toward the “north pole” of the sphere due to decoherence. Using the study’s coherence-stabilized sensing protocol, the researchers temporarily counteracted the decay, leading to a larger…

Compact optical clock uses quantum interference for improved frequency stability

Theoretically calculated (left) and experimentally observed (right) spectroscopic signals in proposed method. Credit: Peter Yun An atomic clock research team from the National Time Service Center of the Chinese Academy…

The first experimental observation of Dirac exceptional points

Dirac exceptional point. The figure illustrates that the Dirac exceptional point exhibits both a real-valued energy spectrum in its vicinity and eigenstate degeneracy. Credit: Wu et al Exceptional points (EPs)…

New physics theory to study low-energy excitations in quantum quasicrystals

By developing a microscopic quantum elasticity theory, this work describes the dynamics of deformations in a quasicrystalline lattice of bosonic particles at the lowest temperatures. Figure (a) illustrates an example…

New quantum optics theory proposes that classical interference arises from bright and dark states of light

Double slit interference. Photons arrive everywhere on the screen, but in the bright/dark regions in a bright/dark quantum state, respectively, that can/cannot excite the atom which is used to monitor…

Quantum sensors tested for next-generation particle physics experiments

The SMSPDs can precisely detect single particles at a time. The detectors were designed and fabricated at JPL and commissioned at the INQNET-Caltech labs. Credit: Cristián Peña, Fermilab To learn…

Nanophotonic platform boosts efficiency of nonlinear-optical quantum teleportation

Quantum messages travel 254 km using existing infrastructure for the first time

Researchers attain coherent control of a hybrid quantum network node

A hybrid multiqubit node-based diamond color centers in a large-scale quantum network. Credit: Chang et al. Quantum technologies, which operate leveraging quantum mechanical phenomena, have the potential to outperform their…