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Scientists Succeed in Placing Quantum Optical Structure on Scalable Chip

Whether for use in safe data encryption, ultrafast calculation of huge data volumes or so-called quantum simulation of highly complex systems: Optical quantum computers are a source of hope for tomorrow’s computer technology.

28 Sep 2016

Toshiba and QST Develop Novel Heavy-Ion Radiotherapy Technology to Accurately Track Tumor Motion

Toshiba Corporation and the National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST) have developed a novel tumor tracking technology for heavy-ion radiotherapy equipment that accurately tracks tumor motion caused by respiration.

27 Sep 2016

Institute for Quantum Computing Sets World Record for Creating Nano-Scale Canadian Flag

The Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo set a world record for creating a Canadian flag measuring about one one-hundredth the width of a human hair.

20 Sep 2016

Researchers at the University of Rochester Develop Quantum Enigma Machine

University of Rochester researchers have for the very first time demonstrated the possibility of sending an unbreakable encrypted message with a key that is extremely shorter than the message.

7 Sep 2016

Photon-Electron Interactions Could Aid studies Related to Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics, Condensed Matter Physics

Where light and matter intersect, the world illuminates. Where light and matter interact so strongly that they become one, they illuminate a world of new physics, according to Rice University scientists.

23 Aug 2016

NSF Awards $12 Million to Develop Quantum Systems for Better Cybersecurity

To advance the technology necessary for secure communication, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $12 million to develop systems that use photons in pre-determined quantum states as a way to encrypt data.

10 Aug 2016

MIT Researchers Discover Important Step Toward Practical Quantum Computers

Quantum computers are principally hypothetical devices capable of performing certain calculations much faster than any existing traditional computers.

9 Aug 2016

Diamond-Based Light Sources Could Lead to Technological Breakthrough in Quantum Communications

Dmitry Fedyanin from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and Mario Agio from the University of Siegen and LENS have predicted that artificial defects in the crystal lattice of diamond can be turned into ultrabright and extremely efficient electrically-driven quantum emitters.

8 Aug 2016

Scientists Design High-Precision Quantum Logic Gate to Build Quantum Computer

Researchers at the University of Oxford have achieved a quantum logic gate with record-breaking 99.9% precision, reaching the benchmark required theoretically to build a quantum computer.

8 Aug 2016

USC Researchers Discover Method to Reduce Heating in Quantum Computers

Quantum computing remains mysterious and elusive to many, but USC Viterbi School of Engineering researchers might have taken us one step closer to bring such super-powered devices to practical reality.

8 Aug 2016