A scalable approach to distill quantum features from higher-dimensional entanglement

Credit: Fang et al. The operation of quantum technologies relies on the reliable realization and control of quantum states, particularly entanglement. In the context of quantum physics, entanglement entails a…

Physicists discover an unusual chiral quantum state in a topological material

Credit: Shafayat Hossain and Zahid Hasan Lab Chirality—the property of an object that is distinct from its mirror image—has long captivated scientists across biology, chemistry, and physics. The phenomenon is…

Can quantum computers handle energy’s hardest problems?

Caleb Rotello sketches out the thinking that led him and fellow researchers to devise algorithms that benchmark quantum computing’s importance to energy research. Credit: Gregory Cooper, NREL Every week quantum…

Quantum sensing via matter-wave interferometry aboard the ISS could broaden our knowledge of the universe

Upgraded hardware being prepared at Jet Propulsion Lab for launch and install into the Cold Atom Lab on the International Space Station. The Science Module in the background enables CAL…

Physicists develop novel test of the holographic principle

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Exactly 100 years ago, famed Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger (yes, the cat guy) postulated his eponymous equation that explains how particles in quantum physics behave. A…

New quantum theory of gravity brings long-sought ‘theory of everything’ a crucial step closer

The gravity quantum field is calculated in flat spacetime. The curved classical metric is calculated using the expectation value of the gravity quantum field. Credit: Aalto University At long last,…

Hours-long continuous lasing achieved using laser-cooled strontium atoms

The team’s experimental setup: Atoms are cooled and slowed inside a vacuum chamber, until they can be trapped in a lattice inside a cavity (black triangular cavity spacer in the…

Superconductor-quantum dot combo manipulates Majorana bound states

Left: The 2DEG chip measured in these experiments (top) connected to a chip containing electrical resonators (bottom), that enable fast calibrations. Right: Electron microscope image of a nanoscale device used…

Novel strategy keeps quantum networks stable by replenishing entanglement

Novel architecture improves control of microwave resonators for quantum computers

Superconducting qubits are cooled in a cryostat close to absolute zero temperature. Credit: University of Innsbruck Innsbruck physicists have presented a new architecture for improved quantum control of microwave resonators.…