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September 8, 2025

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Scientists Create Scalable Quantum Node Linking Light and Matter

Aug. 29, 2025 — Quantum scientists in Innsbruck have taken a major leap toward building the internet of the future. Using a string of calcium ions and finely tuned lasers, they created quantum nodes capable of generating streams of entangled photons with 92% ...

Caltech Breakthrough Makes Quantum Memory Last 30 Times Longer

Aug. 27, 2025 — While superconducting qubits are great at fast calculations, they struggle to store information for long periods. A team at Caltech has now developed a clever solution: converting quantum information into sound waves. By using a tiny device that ...

Scientists Turn Spin Loss Into Energy, Unlocking Ultra-low-power AI Chips

Aug. 25, 2025 — Scientists have discovered that electron spin loss, long considered waste, can instead drive magnetization switching in spintronic devices, boosting efficiency by up to three times. The scalable, semiconductor-friendly method could accelerate the ...

Scientists Discover Forgotten Particle That Could Unlock Quantum Computers

Aug. 23, 2025 — Scientists may have uncovered the missing piece of quantum computing by reviving a particle once dismissed as useless. This particle, called the neglecton, could give fragile quantum systems the full power they need by working alongside Ising ...

Scientists Just Cracked the Quantum Code Hidden in a Single Atom

Aug. 22, 2025 — A research team has created a quantum logic gate that uses fewer qubits by encoding them with the powerful GKP error-correction code. By entangling quantum vibrations inside a single atom, they achieved a milestone that could transform how quantum ...

This Simple Magnetic Trick Could Change Quantum Computing Forever

Aug. 16, 2025 — Researchers have unveiled a new quantum material that could make quantum computers much more stable by using magnetism to protect delicate qubits from environmental disturbances. Unlike traditional approaches that rely on rare spin-orbit ...

Scientists Just Cracked the Cryptographic Code Behind Quantum Supremacy

July 28, 2025 — Quantum computing may one day outperform classical machines in solving certain complex problems, but when and how this “quantum advantage” emerges has remained unclear. Now, researchers from Kyoto University have linked this advantage to ...

Scientists Just Simulated the “Impossible” — Fault-tolerant Quantum Code Cracked at Last

July 3, 2025 — A multinational team has cracked a long-standing barrier to reliable quantum computing by inventing an algorithm that lets ordinary computers faithfully mimic a fault-tolerant quantum circuit built ...

Quantum Computers Just Beat Classical Ones — Exponentially and Unconditionally

June 30, 2025 — A research team has achieved the holy grail of quantum computing: an exponential speedup that’s unconditional. By using clever error correction and IBM’s powerful 127-qubit processors, they ...

Quantum Breakthrough: ‘Magic States’ Now Easier, Faster, and Way Less Noisy

June 26, 2025 — Quantum computing just got a significant boost thanks to researchers at the University of Osaka, who developed a much more efficient way to create "magic states" a key component for fault-tolerant ...

Quantum Computers Just Got an Upgrade – And It’s 10× More Efficient

June 25, 2025 — Chalmers engineers built a pulse-driven qubit amplifier that’s ten times more efficient, stays cool, and safeguards quantum states—key for bigger, better quantum ...

AI Reveals Milky Way’s Black Hole Spins Near Top Speed

June 15, 2025 — AI has helped astronomers crack open some of the universe s best-kept secrets by analyzing massive datasets about black holes. Using over 12 million simulations powered by high-throughput computing, scientists discovered that the Milky Way's central ...

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Harvard’s Ultra-Thin Chip Could Revolutionize Quantum Computing

July 25, 2025 — Researchers at Harvard have created a groundbreaking metasurface that can replace bulky and complex optical components used in quantum computing with a single, ultra-thin, nanostructured layer. This ...

One Small Qubit, One Giant Leap for Quantum Computing

July 24, 2025 — Aalto University physicists in Finland have set a new benchmark in quantum computing by achieving a record-breaking millisecond coherence in a transmon qubit — nearly doubling prior limits. This ...

Sharper Than Lightning: Oxford’s One-in-6.7-Million Quantum Breakthrough

June 10, 2025 — Physicists at the University of Oxford have set a new global benchmark for the accuracy of controlling a single quantum bit, achieving the lowest-ever error rate for a quantum logic operation--just ...

Photonic Quantum Chips Are Making AI Smarter and Greener

June 8, 2025 — A team of researchers has shown that even small-scale quantum computers can enhance machine learning performance, using a novel photonic quantum circuit. Their findings suggest that today s quantum ...

New Quantum Visualization Technique to Identify Materials for Next Generation Quantum Computing

May 29, 2025 — Scientists have developed a powerful new tool for finding the next generation of materials needed for large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computing. ...

Controlling Quantum Motion and Hyper-Entanglement

May 26, 2025 — A new experiment encodes quantum information in the motion of the atoms and creates a state known as hyper-entanglement, in which two or more traits are linked among a pair of ...

New Biosensor Solves Old Quantum Riddle

May 26, 2025 — Researchers united insights from cellular biology, quantum computing, old-fashioned semiconductors and high-definition TVs to both create a revolutionary new quantum biosensor. In doing so, they shed ...

'Universe's Awkward Handshake' -- Simplifying Information Processing Using Photons a Quantum Breakthrough

May 12, 2025 — Researchers have developed a technique that makes high-dimensional quantum information encoded in light more practical and reliable. The advancement ...

Computing: Shedding Light on Shadow Branches

May 9, 2025 — Researchers have developed a new technique called 'Skia' to help computer processors better predict future instructions and improve computing ...

A New Method for Characterizing Quantum Gate Errors

May 8, 2025 — Researchers have developed a new protocol for characterizing quantum gate errors, paving the way toward more reliable quantum simulations and fault-tolerant quantum ...

Experimental Quantum Communications Network

May 6, 2025 — Researchers recently connected their campuses with an experimental quantum communications network using two optical ...

New Bayesian Method Enables Rapid Detection of Quantum Dot Charge States

May 1, 2025 — A research team has developed a new technique to rapidly and accurately determine the charge state of electrons confined in semiconductor quantum dots -- fundamental components of quantum computing ...

Engineers Advance Toward a Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer

Apr. 30, 2025 — Researchers demonstrated extremely strong nonlinear light-matter coupling in a quantum circuit. Stronger coupling enables faster quantum readout and operations, ultimately improving the accuracy of ...

Physicists Uncover Hidden Order in the Quantum World Through Deconfined Quantum Critical Points

Apr. 25, 2025 — A recent study has unraveled some of the secrets concealed within the entangled web of quantum ...

Scientists Uncover Quantum Surprise: Matter Mediates Ultrastrong Coupling Between Light Particles

Apr. 18, 2025 — A team of researchers has developed a new way to control light interactions using a specially engineered structure called a 3D photonic-crystal cavity that could enable transformative advancements in ...

Curved Neutron Beams Could Deliver Benefits Straight to Industry

Apr. 17, 2025 — Scientists have created the first neutron 'Airy beam,' which has unusual capabilities that ordinary neutron beams do not. The achievement could enhance neutron-based techniques for ...

An Elegant Method for the Detection of Single Spins Using Photovoltage

Apr. 15, 2025 — Diamonds with certain optically active defects can be used as highly sensitive sensors or qubits for quantum computers, where the quantum information is stored in the electron spin state of these ...

Photonic Computing Needs More Nonlinearity: Acoustics Can Help

Apr. 14, 2025 — Neural networks are one typical structure on which artificial intelligence can be based. The term neural describes their learning ability, which to some extent mimics the functioning of neurons in ...

AI Tool Set to Speed Quest for Advanced Superconductors

Apr. 10, 2025 — Using artificial intelligence shortens the time to identify complex quantum phases in materials from months to minutes, finds a study. The breakthrough could significantly speed up research into ...

Researchers Demonstrate the UK's First Long-Distance Ultra-Secure Communication Over a Quantum Network

Apr. 7, 2025 — Researchers have successfully demonstrated the UK's first long-distance ultra-secure transfer of data over a quantum communications network, including the UK's first long-distance ...

Transducer Could Enable Superconducting Quantum Networks

Apr. 2, 2025 — Applied physicists have created a photon router that could plug into quantum networks to create robust optical interfaces for noise-sensitive microwave quantum ...

Scientists Merge Two 'Impossible' Materials Into New Artificial Structure

Apr. 2, 2025 — An international team has merged two lab-synthesized materials into a synthetic quantum structure once thought impossible to exist and produced an exotic structure expected to provide insights that ...

Researchers Find a Way to Shield Quantum Information from 'Noise'

Mar. 27, 2025 — Researchers have discovered a way to protect quantum information from environmental disruptions, offering hope for more reliable future ...

Entangled in Self-Discovery: Quantum Computers Analyze Their Own Entanglement

Mar. 26, 2025 — Quantum computers are able to solve complex calculations that would take traditional computers thousands of years in just a few minutes. What if that analytical power is turned inwards towards the ...

Artificial Intelligence Uses Less Energy by Mimicking the Human Brain

Mar. 26, 2025 — Electrical and computer engineers have developed a 'Super-Turing AI,' which operates more like the human brain. This new AI integrates certain processes instead of separating them and then ...

New Type of Quantum Computer Studies the Dance of Elementary Particles

Mar. 25, 2025 — The study of elementary particles and forces is of central importance to our understanding of the universe. Now a team of physicists shows how an unconventional type of quantum computer opens a new ...

Listen to Quantum Atoms Talk Together Thanks to Acoustics

Mar. 25, 2025 — To get around the constraints of quantum physics, researchers have built a new acoustic system to study the way the minuscule atoms of condensed matter talk together. They hope to one day build an ...

Device Enables Direct Communication Among Multiple Quantum Processors

Mar. 21, 2025 — Researchers developed a scalable interconnect that facilitates all-to-all communication among many quantum processor modules by enabling each to send and receive quantum information on demand in a ...

First Operating System for Quantum Networks

Mar. 12, 2025 — Researchers have announced the creation of the first operating system designed for quantum networks: QNodeOS. The research marks a major step forward in transforming quantum networking from a ...

Untangling Quantum Entanglement With New Calculation Formulas

Mar. 11, 2025 — Physicists developed simplified formulas to quantify quantum entanglement in strongly correlated electron systems. Their approach was applied to nanoscale materials, revealing unexpected quantum ...