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Qubits Can Successfully Exist in Topological Superconductor Materials

If quantum computers are ever going to perform all those expected feats of code-breaking and number crunching, then their component qubits---tiny ephemeral quantum cells held in a superposition of internal states---will have to be protected from intervention by the outside world. In other words, decoherence, the loss of the qubits' quantum integrity, has to be postponed.

10 Oct 2012

Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded for Methods to Measure, Manipulate Individual Quantum Systems

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2012 to Serge Haroche, Collège de France and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France and David J. Wineland, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and University of Colorado Boulder, CO, USA “for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems”.

10 Oct 2012

Magnolia Solar to Incorporate Quantum Dot Structures into Advanced Photovoltaic Devices

Magnolia Solar, developer of revolutionary thin-film solar cell technologies employing nanostructured materials and designs, announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, Magnolia Solar, Inc., received a $750,000 Phase II award from the United States Air Force as part of the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program.

10 Oct 2012

Particle Control in a Quantum World

Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland have independently invented and developed methods for measuring and manipulating individual particles while preserving their quantum-mechanical nature, in ways that were previously tho...

9 Oct 2012

Scientists Explore Feasibility of Ultrathin-Film Photovoltaic Devices Using Quantum Dots

Researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas are developing nanotechnology that could lead to a new platform for solar cells, one that could drive the development of lighter, flexible and more versatile solar-powered technology than is currently available.

9 Oct 2012

Researcher Receives Grant to Explore New Theory Based on Holography

A University of Southampton professor is the only UK recipient of a research grant to explore the laws of physics at the beginning of time.

6 Oct 2012

Researchers at Centre for Quantum Technologies Create and Probe Single Barium Ions

All the apparatus that fills the laboratory of the Microtraps group at the Centre for Quantum Technologies — three heavy metal optical benches densely packed with lasers, lenses, mirrors and above them shelves full of electronics — has been put into service to produce and probe single ions of Barium.

5 Oct 2012

Study Results Provide New Insights into Precision Quantum Measurement

Scientists who study the ultra-small world of atoms know it is impossible to make certain simultaneous measurements, for example finding out both the location and momentum of an electron, with an arbitrarily high level of precision. Because measurements disturb the system, increased certainty in the first measurement leads to increased uncertainty in the second.

5 Oct 2012

World’s First Commercial Quantum Computing Firm Closes $30 Million Round of Equity Funding

D-Wave Systems, Inc. today announced that it has closed a $30 million round of equity funding. Bezos Expeditions and In-Q-Tel (IQT) have joined the investment round. Bezos Expeditions is the personal investment company o...

5 Oct 2012

Researchers Find Value of Key Source Parameters to Generate High-Fidelity Single Photons

Many quantum technologies—such as cryptography, quantum computing and quantum networks—hinge on the use of single photons. While she was at the Kastler Brossel Laboratory (affiliated with the Pierre and Marie...

5 Oct 2012

New Quantum Cryptography Technique Holds Potential for Unconditional Security

Move over money, a new currency is helping make the world go round. As increasing volumes of data become accessible, transferable and, therefore, actionable, information is the treasure companies want to amass.

5 Oct 2012

Study Findings Provide Insights into Topological Quantum Computation

A research group at the International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) investigated theoretically the charge-neutral Majorana fermions, and proposed a method for their manipulation.

5 Oct 2012

Cause and Effect Situations May Have Far-Reaching Implications in Quantum Mechanics

One of the most deeply rooted concepts in science and in our everyday life is causality; the idea that events in the present are caused by events in the past and, in turn, act as causes for what happens in the future. If an event A is a cause of an effect B, then B cannot be a cause of A.

4 Oct 2012

Researchers to Study Optical Materials and their Interactions with Light Quantum Scale

Through a new Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) awarded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, researchers from Brown University will lead an effort to study new optical materials and their interactions with light quantum scale. The initiative, titled Quantum Metaphotonics and Quantum Metamaterials, will receive $4.5 million over three years, with a possible two-year extension.

4 Oct 2012

Physicists Receive Grant to Explore Dark Matter Particles

The eight academics in the University’s particle physics group conduct experiments using the giant CMS and LHCb detectors, deep underground on the Swiss-French border.

4 Oct 2012

Quantum Science News

Qubits Can Successfully Exist in Topological Superconductor Materials

Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded for Methods to Measure, Manipulate Individual Quantum Systems

Magnolia Solar to Incorporate Quantum Dot Structures into Advanced Photovoltaic Devices

Particle Control in a Quantum World

Scientists Explore Feasibility of Ultrathin-Film Photovoltaic Devices Using Quantum Dots

Researcher Receives Grant to Explore New Theory Based on Holography

Researchers at Centre for Quantum Technologies Create and Probe Single Barium Ions

Study Results Provide New Insights into Precision Quantum Measurement

World’s First Commercial Quantum Computing Firm Closes $30 Million Round of Equity Funding

Researchers Find Value of Key Source Parameters to Generate High-Fidelity Single Photons

New Quantum Cryptography Technique Holds Potential for Unconditional Security

Study Findings Provide Insights into Topological Quantum Computation

Cause and Effect Situations May Have Far-Reaching Implications in Quantum Mechanics

Researchers to Study Optical Materials and their Interactions with Light Quantum Scale

Physicists Receive Grant to Explore Dark Matter Particles

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

Advancing Quantum Scalability with New Qubit Method

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