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IBM Makes Cloud-enabled Quantum Computing Platform Available to Public Users

IBM Research announced today that for the first time ever it is making quantum computing available to members of the public, who can access and run experiments on IBM’s quantum processor.

4 May 2016

Special Breakthrough Prize Recognizes Scientists Contributing to Momentous Detection of Gravitational Waves

The Selection Committee of the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics today announced a Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics recognizing scientists and engineers contributing to the momentous detection of gravitational waves – a detection announced on February 11, 2016.

4 May 2016

PPPL Researchers Challenge Understanding of Key Element in Fusion Plasmas

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have challenged understanding of a key element in fusion plasmas. At issue has been an accurate prediction of the size of the “bootstrap current” — a self-generating electric current — and an understanding of what carries the current at the edge of plasmas in doughnut-shaped facilities called tokamaks.

4 May 2016

MPQ Scientists Demonstrate How Quantum Logic Gate Operation Can be Realized with Single Photons

MPQ scientists take an important step towards a logical quantum gate for photons.

4 May 2016

Quantum Physical Effect of Entanglement Can be Detected with the Naked Eye

Predictions from quantum physics have been confirmed by countless experiments, but no one has yet detected the quantum physical effect of entanglement directly with the naked eye. This should now be possible thanks to an experiment proposed by a team around a theoretical physicist at the University of Basel. The experiment might pave the way for new applications in quantum physics.

4 May 2016

Research Paves Promising Route for On-Chip Single Photon Source that Can Operate at Ambient Temperatures

Highly directional single photon source concept is expected to lead to a significant progress in producing compact, cheap, and efficient sources of quantum information bits for future applications

4 May 2016

Astronomers Detect Three Earth-Like Exoplanets Orbiting Ultracool Dwarf Star

A group of astronomers at MIT, the University of Liège in Belgium, and elsewhere have discovered three Earth-like exoplanets orbiting around an ultracool dwarf star for the first time. They are located just 40 light years from our planet. Their sizes and temperatures are similar to those of Earth and Venus, making them the best targets ever found in search of life beyond our solar system.

4 May 2016

Researchers Develop Ultrafast Quantum Dots

Light sources function by absorbing energy - for instance, from an electric current - and then release this absorbed energy as light. It is important for these light sources to emit light as fast as possible, otherwise the energy can be lost as heat.

3 May 2016

New Method to Image Magnetic Fields on Nanometer Scale at Temperatures Near Absolute Zero

Scientists at the Swiss Nanoscience Institute and the Department of Physics at the University of Basel have developed a new method that has enabled them to image magnetic fields on the nanometer scale at temperatures close to absolute zero for the first time.

3 May 2016

NERSC Researchers Identify Aluminum Nitride as Possible Candidate to Produce Quantum Bits

Quantum computers have the potential to break common cryptography techniques, search huge datasets and simulate quantum systems in a fraction of the time it would take today’s computers. But before this can happen, engineers need to be able to harness the properties of quantum bits or qubits.

2 May 2016

Spin-Polarized Currents Can be Controlled in Topological Insulator Material

An international team headed by HZB researcher Jaime Sánchez-Barriga has shown how spin-polarised currents can be initiated in a controlled manner within samples of topological insulator material.

2 May 2016

Kazan University Researchers to Study Evolution of Universe

The guidance will be provided by Kavli Prize Laureate, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, world-famous researcher Alexei Starobinsky.

2 May 2016

New Device Makes Entangled Qubits Appealing for Multi-Channel Quantum Communication

Quantum mechanics, with its counterintuitive rules for describing the behavior of tiny particles like photons and atoms, holds great promise for profound advances in the security and speed of how we communicate and compute.

28 Apr 2016

Atomic-Scale Magnetic Graphene Holds Promise for Spintronic Technology

Graphene is a one atom thick sheet, and is made up of carbon atoms. Although graphene possesses a long list of properties, not one of those is magnetism.

27 Apr 2016

Unique Rapid-Fire Electron Source Could Help Scientists Study Ultrafast Chemical Processes at Atomic Scale

A unique rapid-fire electron source—originally built as a prototype for driving next-generation X-ray lasers—will help scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) study ultrafast chemical processes and changes in materials at the atomic scale. This could provide new insight in how to make materials with custom, controllable properties and improve the efficiency and output of chemical reactions.

27 Apr 2016

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IBM Makes Cloud-enabled Quantum Computing Platform Available to Public Users

Special Breakthrough Prize Recognizes Scientists Contributing to Momentous Detection of Gravitational Waves

PPPL Researchers Challenge Understanding of Key Element in Fusion Plasmas

MPQ Scientists Demonstrate How Quantum Logic Gate Operation Can be Realized with Single Photons

Quantum Physical Effect of Entanglement Can be Detected with the Naked Eye

Research Paves Promising Route for On-Chip Single Photon Source that Can Operate at Ambient Temperatures

Astronomers Detect Three Earth-Like Exoplanets Orbiting Ultracool Dwarf Star

Researchers Develop Ultrafast Quantum Dots

New Method to Image Magnetic Fields on Nanometer Scale at Temperatures Near Absolute Zero

NERSC Researchers Identify Aluminum Nitride as Possible Candidate to Produce Quantum Bits

Spin-Polarized Currents Can be Controlled in Topological Insulator Material

Kazan University Researchers to Study Evolution of Universe

New Device Makes Entangled Qubits Appealing for Multi-Channel Quantum Communication

Atomic-Scale Magnetic Graphene Holds Promise for Spintronic Technology

Unique Rapid-Fire Electron Source Could Help Scientists Study Ultrafast Chemical Processes at Atomic Scale

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Quantum Development in Ireland: A Conversation with John Durcan, Chief Technologist, IDA Ireland

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Quantum Development in Ireland: A Conversation with John Durcan, Chief Technologist, IDA Ireland

Advancing Quantum Scalability with New Qubit Method

Modified Newtonian Dynamics and the Search for a Ninth Planet

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2Quantum Observer Paradox: Extending Measurement Disturbance

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4Researchers Achieve Major Advancement in Quantum Technology

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