Novel ‘toggle-switch’ could lead to more versatile quantum processors with clearer outputs

This photo shows the central working region of the device. In the lower section, the three large rectangles (light blue) represent the two quantum bits, or qubits, at right and…

Microsoft claims to have achieved first milestone in creating a reliable and practical quantum computer

Physicists develop a novel quantum theory of light-induced matter

Schematic illustration of time-resolved spectroscopy for the light-induced phase of molecules proposed based on the new quantum theory. Emission signal is collected in detector after the laser pulses that excite…

Researchers develop a new source of quantum light

Microscopic imaging shows the size uniformity of the perovskite nanocrystals. Credit: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Using novel materials that have been widely studied as potential new solar photovoltaics, researchers at…

New device opens door to storing quantum information as sound waves

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Quantum computing, just like traditional computing, needs a way to store the information it uses and processes. On the computer you’re using right now, information, whether…

Could quantum gravity models arising from holography explain cosmological acceleration?

New tiny atomic beam clock could bring stable timing to places GPS can’t reach

Directly imaging quantum states in two-dimensional materials

Left, ultrafast light pulses excite and probe a tiny sample of WS2 one layer of atoms thick, emitting electrons that are collected by a new detector called a momentum microscope.…

Photon pairs compress an electron beam into short pulses

Team finds ways to harness quantum power of atomic flaws