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April 6, 2025

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Enhancing Light Control With Complex Frequency Excitations

Apr. 1, 2025 — Researchers report their insights on the emerging field of complex frequencies excitations, a recently introduced scheme to control light, sound and other wave phenomena beyond conventional limits. Based on this approach, they outline opportunities ...

Hot Schrödinger Cat States Created

Apr. 4, 2025 — Quantum states can only be prepared and observed under highly controlled conditions. A research team has now succeeded in creating so-called hot Schrodinger cat states in a superconducting microwave resonator. The study shows that quantum phenomena ...

Physicists Uncover Electronic Interactions Mediated Via Spin Waves

Apr. 3, 2025 — Physicists have made a novel discovery regarding the interaction of electronic excitations via spin waves. The finding could open the door to future technologies and advanced applications such as optical modulators, all-optical logic gates, and ...

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 could lead to new materials at the core of quantum ...

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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 ...

Physicists Use Quantum Entanglement to Crack Mystery of Strange Metals

Mar. 28, 2025 — Scientists have long sought to unravel the mysteries of strange metals -- materials that defy conventional rules of electricity and magnetism. Now, a team of physicists has made a breakthrough in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Quantum Heat Dynamics Toggled by Magnetic Fields

Mar. 19, 2025 — The ability to conduct heat is one of the most fundamental properties of matter, crucial for engineering applications. Scientists know well how conventional materials, such as metals and insulators, ...

Record-Breaking 12,900 Km Ultra-Secure Quantum Satellite Link

Mar. 19, 2025 — Scientists have successfully established the world's longest intercontinental ultra-secure quantum satellite link, spanning 12,900 km. Using the Chinese quantum microsatellite Jinan-1, launched into ...

Twisting Atomically Thin Materials Could Advance Quantum Computers

Mar. 17, 2025 — Researchers show that precisely layering nano-thin materials creates excitons -- essentially, artificial atoms -- that can act as quantum information bits, or ...

Quantum Spin Model Made from Nanographene Molecules

Mar. 14, 2025 — Researchers have experimentally recreated another fundamental theoretical model from quantum physics, which goes back to the Nobel Prize laureate Werner Heisenberg. The basis for the successful ...

Quantum-Inspired Cameras Capture the Start of Life

Mar. 13, 2025 — Researchers have performed the first imaging of embryos using cameras designed for quantum measurements. The academics investigated how to best use ultrasensitive camera technology, including the ...

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 ...

Unlocking the Secrets of Phase Transitions in Quantum Hardware

Mar. 10, 2025 — Researchers have achieved a remarkable result: capturing and studying phase changes in quantum hardware, which hold hold promise for next-generation technologies like quantum computing and ...

Quantum Dot Discovery for LEDs Brings Brighter, More Eco-Friendly Displays

Mar. 5, 2025 — Research has achieved a breakthrough in eco-friendly display technology, creating highly efficient and stable blue quantum dot LEDs (QLEDs) that could power the next generation of televisions, ...

Single-Qubit Sensing Puts New Spin on Quantum Materials Discovery

Mar. 5, 2025 — Working at nanoscale dimensions, billionths of a meter in size, a team of scientists revealed a new way to measure high-speed fluctuations in magnetic materials. Knowledge obtained by these new ...

Cold Atoms on a Chip

Mar. 4, 2025 — Researchers are working to move cold atom quantum experiments and applications from the laboratory tabletop to chip-based ...

Scientists Unravel the Spiraling Secrets of Magnetic Materials for Next-Generation Electronics

Mar. 4, 2025 — Engineers have developed a new computational approach to accurately model and predict the properties of a class of magnetic molecules called chiral helimagnets. Their work could accelerate the ...

New Ocelot Chip Makes Strides in Quantum Computing

Feb. 27, 2025 — Scientists demonstrate a new quantum chip architecture for suppressing errors using a type of qubit known as a cat ...

Quantum Interference in Molecule-Surface Collisions

Feb. 27, 2025 — Scientists have revealed how quantum interference and symmetry dictate molecular behavior in collisions with gold surfaces, offering new insights into molecular interactions. The findings can have ...

Unraveling the Origin of Extremely Bright Quantum Emitters

Feb. 27, 2025 — A multi-institutional research team has clarified the energy levels of color centers at the SiO2/SiC interface, paving the way toward the development of scalable quantum technologies that use them as ...

New Low-Cost Challenger to Quantum Computer: Ising Machine

Feb. 26, 2025 — A low-energy challenger to the quantum computer also works at room temperature. The researchers have shown that information can be transmitted using magnetic wave motion in complex ...

Multiplexing Entanglement in a Quantum Network

Feb. 26, 2025 — Researchers use rare-earth ions to achieve the first-ever demonstration of entanglement multiplexing between individual memory qubits in a quantum ...

Mesoporous Silicon: Semiconductor With New Talents

Feb. 25, 2025 — Silicon is the best-known semiconductor material. However, controlled nanostructuring drastically alters the material's properties. Using a specially developed etching apparatus, a team has now ...

A Completely New Type of Microscopy Based on Quantum Sensors

Feb. 25, 2025 — Researchers have invented an entirely new field of microscopy -- nuclear spin microscopy. The team can visualize magnetic signals of nuclear magnetic resonance with a microscope. Quantum sensors ...

Breakthrough in High-Sensitivity Quantum Sensors With Diamond Heteroepitaxy

Feb. 25, 2025 — Heteroepitaxial growth technology has made it possible to create larger diamond substrates, opening new opportunities for industrial-scale production of diamond quantum sensors. A research team has ...

Materials Incorporated Into Quantum Qubit Platform

Feb. 25, 2025 — Researchers detail advances in the measurement of quantum devices that will be needed to realize a topological quantum computer. In an announcement, the team describes the operation of a device that ...

Topological Quantum Processor Marks Breakthrough in Computing

Feb. 20, 2025 — In a leap forward for quantum computing, physicists unveiled an eight-qubit topological quantum processor, the first of its kind. The chip, built as a proof-of-concept for the scientists' ...

Magnetic Switch Traps Quantum Information Carriers in One Dimension

Feb. 19, 2025 — A quantum 'miracle material' could support magnetic switching, a team of researchers has ...