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…
Category: Quantum Physics
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 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.…
Calculating the strong attraction of a charming particle
Using the supercomputer Fugaku (shown here), RIKEN researchers were able to determine the strong force acting between a nucleon and a charmonium particle. Credit: RIKEN A theoretical study by RIKEN…
Quantum computer outperforms supercomputers in approximate optimization tasks
Credit: AI-generated image A quantum computer can solve optimization problems faster than classical supercomputers, a process known as “quantum advantage” and demonstrated by a USC researcher in a paper recently…
