A huge race is on to develop quantum technologies; the time to discuss risks is now

Credit: CC0 Public Domain The United Nations has proclaimed 2025 as the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology. The goal is to recognize “the importance of quantum science and…

Entangled photons enable Raman spectroscopy

Signal spectrum from the high-speed camera for PBI molecules. Credit: Light: Science & Applications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41377-024-01492-4 ‘High-speed camera’ for molecules Certain molecular systems exhibit ultrafast processes, such as electron…

A new approach to accelerate the discovery of quantum materials

This image shows the cobalt defect fabricated by the study team. The green and yellow circles are tungsten and sulfur atoms that make up a 2D tungsten disulfide sample. The…

Physicists develop new theorems to describe the energy landscape formed when quantum particles gather together

Physicists pool skills to better describe the unstable sigma meson particle

Quantum microscopy study makes electrons visible in slow motion

The imaging tip of the time-resolving scanning tunneling microscope captures the collective electron motion in materials through ultrafast terahertz pulses. Credit: Shaoxiang Sheng, University of Stuttgart (FMQ) Physicists at the…

Silicon photonics light the way toward large-scale applications in quantum information

Exploring three-dimensional quantum Griffiths singularity in bulk unconventional iron-based superconductors

Magnetic-field-driven superconductor-metal phase transition with multiple quantum critical points in CaFe1-xNixAsF. Credit: Science China Press They and their collaborators grew a series of high-quality underdoped CaFe1-xNixAsF bulk single crystals for…

Artificial intelligence could help make quantum computers a reality

CSIRO research has found AI neural network syndrome decoder can detect errors and make appropriate corrections in quantum processors. Credit: CSIRO Could artificial intelligence help overcome one of quantum computing’s…

Securely propagating entanglement at the push of a button

So far, the Garching scientists have been able to manipulate up to six rubidium atoms as quantum bits in the optical resonator with the light tweezers. To make them visible,…