Credit: CC0 Public Domain In 1951, physicist Julian Schwinger theorized that by applying a uniform electrical field to a vacuum, electron-positron pairs would be spontaneously created out of nothing, through…
Category: Quantum Physics
Probability theorem gets quantum makeover after 250 years
What would Thomas Bayes think? In 1763, he proposed a new approach to calculate probabilities. An international team has now updated his ideas to deliver a quantum Bayes’ rule. Credit:…
Engineers send quantum signals with standard Internet Protocol
Yichi Zhang, a doctoral student in Materials Science and Engineering, with the equipment used to generate and send the quantum signal over Verizon fiber optic cables. Credit: Sylvia Zhang In…
A blueprint for error-corrected fermionic quantum processors
Error-corrected fermionic quantum processors. Credit: Created with AI An international research team led by Robert Ott and Hannes Pichler has developed a novel architecture for quantum processors that is specifically…
MRI technology inspires quantum advancement with 2D materials
Purdue University physicist Tongcang Li performs optically detected magnetic resonance spectroscopy in his lab. Li and his team at Purdue are working on materials that would improve the resolution of…
Quantum memory array brings us closer to a quantum RAM
From left to right, Markus Teller and Susana Plascencia in their lab at ICFO, working in the 10 quantum memory cell array. ICFO. Credit: ICFO The internet, social media, and…
How to build larger, more reliable quantum computers, even with imperfect links between chips
(Color online) (a) DL measurement for two data qubits across the boundary. Left: ZZ product; Right: XX product. (b) same for CAT gadget. (c) same for GT gadget. Red dashed…
High-fidelity entangling gates connect remote superconducting quantum processors
Right: the team’s experimental setup. The quantum chips are mounted in two chip boxes separately. They are connected through a microwave cable. Left: image of the entangling concept. Two Schrödinger’s…
