An optical fiber link to the ALPHA experiment at CERN’s Antimatter Factory will assist in precise measurements of the properties of antihydrogen. Credit: CERN A new optical fiber link between…
Category: Quantum Physics
Topological quantum processor uses Majorana zero modes for fault-tolerant computing
Majorana 1, the eight-qubit topological quantum processor unveiled at Microsoft Station Q’s 2025 conference. Credit: Microsoft In a leap forward for quantum computing, a Microsoft team led by UC Santa…
Research demonstrates readout technique for superconducting qubits
by Rigetti Computing Inc. Microwave qubit readout. Credit: Nature Physics (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41567-024-02742-3 This is where microwave-to-optical transduction comes into play, a field dedicated to the coherent conversion of microwave…
Newly realized nuclear-spin dark state promises reduced quantum decoherence
Two electrons (blue) in a state gate-defined quantum dot were used to create a nuclear-spin dark state. The dark state is a collective state of the nuclear spins (green) that…
Microsoft joins quantum race with breakthrough chip
Credit: Microsoft Tech giant Microsoft unveiled a new computer chip on Wednesday that it says could transform everything from fighting pollution to developing new medicines, joining Google and IBM in…
A new way to observe electrons in motion
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Electrons oscillate around the nucleus of an atom on extremely short timescales, typically completing a cycle in just a few hundred attoseconds. Because of their ultrafast…
Digging deeper into light-assisted atomic collisions
Exploiting the hyperfine structure in repulsive light-assisted collisions (LAC) on a 87-Rubidium atom pair in an optical tweezer. Credit: Steven Burrows/Steven Pampel and Cindy Regal When atoms collide, their exact…
A newly proposed protocol to boost privacy in quantum sensor networks
Schematic of a quantum sensor network. Unknown parameters are spatially distributed across the network. Metrologically, the objective is to estimate a function of these parameters, such as their average value.…
Quantum-inspired advancement turns crystal gaps into terabyte storage for classical memory
A crystal used in the study charges under UV light. The process created by the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering Zhong Lab could be used with a…
