A representation of data visualization of quantum states of electrons on the surface and edge of gray arsenic crystal obtained using a scanning tunneling microscope at Princeton’s physics department. Credit:…
Category: Quantum Physics
Quantum crystal of frozen electrons—the Wigner crystal—is visualized for the first time
An image of a triangular Wigner crystal taken by scanning tunneling microscope. Researchers have unveiled an elusive crystal that is formed purely from the repulsive nature of electrons. Each site…
When laser light makes materials magnetic
Stefano Bonetti in his lab at Stockholm University. Credit: Knut and Alice Wallenbergs Foundation/Magnus Bergström The potential of quantum technology is huge but is today largely limited to the extremely…
Team is first ever to measure qubits with ultrasensitive thermal detectors, evading Heisenberg uncertainty principle
An artistic illustration shows how microscopic bolometers (depicted on the right) can be used to sense very weak radiation emitted from qubits (depicted on the left). Credit: Aleksandr Käkinen/Aalto University…
New technique lets scientists create resistance-free electron channels
Scanning tunneling microscopy image of a chiral interface state wavefunction (bright stripe) in a quantum anomalous Hall insulator made from twisted monolayer-bilayer graphene. Credit: Canxun Zhang/Berkeley Lab An international research…
New material offers potential for unlocking gravity-free technology
Credit: Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Researchers at the Quantum Machines Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) are studying levitating materials—substances that can remain suspended…
Discovery points path to flash-like memory for storing qubits
Physicists from five Rice University laboratories and more than a dozen collaborating institutions have discovered a way to use heat to switch crystals of iron, germanium and tellurium between two…
Simulating magnetization in a Heisenberg quantum spin chain
Credit: Google LLC The rapid progress of quantum simulators is now enabling them to study problems that before have been limited to the domain of theoretical physics and numerical simulation.…
New focused approach can help untangle messy quantum scrambling problems
A collection of quantum particles can store information in various collective quantum states. The above model represents the states as blue nodes and illustrates how interactions can scramble the organized…
