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BlackBerry Founders Partner to Establish Quantum Valley Investments

Mike Lazaridis and Doug Fregin , who together founded BlackBerry, announced today that they have partnered again to establish Quantum Valley Investments, a $100 million private fund that will provide financial and intellectual capital for the further development and commercialization of breakthroughs in Quantum Information Science. Quantum Valley Investments is headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

20 Mar 2013

DFG Sets Up New Research Units to Explore Quantum Systems, Cell Processes and More

The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) is establishing eight new Research Units. This was decided by the DFG Senate during its 2013 March meeting in Bonn. The research collaborations will offer researchers the possibility to pursue current and pressing issues in their research areas and to establish innovative work directions.

20 Mar 2013

Interactions Between Magnetic Spin and Mechanical Vibration Open Up Interesting Applications in Quantum World

In their experiment the researchers used a carbon nanotube that was mounted between two metal electrodes, spanned a distance of about 1 µm, and could vibrate mechanically. Then, they applied an organic molecule with a magnetic spin due to an incorporated metal atom. This spin was oriented in an external magnetic field.

16 Mar 2013

Optical Control of TI Photoemission Offers Potential Applications in Quantum Computing

Plain-looking but inherently strange crystalline materials called 3D topological insulators (TIs) are all the rage in materials science. Even at room temperature, a single chunk of TI is a good insulator in the bulk, yet behaves like a metal on its surface.

15 Mar 2013

Ion Trap Technology Considered as a Scalable Option for Quantum Information Processing

Recently Science Magazine invited JQI fellow Chris Monroe and Duke Professor Jungsang Kim to speculate on ion trap technology as a scalable option for quantum information processing.

8 Mar 2013

Naturally Occurring Topological Insulator Retrieved from Abandoned Gold Mine

In a step toward understanding and exploiting an exotic form of matter that has been sparking excitement for potential applications in a new genre of supercomputers, scientists are reporting the first identification of a naturally occurring "topological insulator" (TI). Their report on discovery of the material, retrieved from an abandoned gold mine in the Czech Republic, appears in the ACS journal Nano Letters.

8 Mar 2013

Light Manipulated on Superconducting Chips to Build Quantum Computers

Physicists at UC Santa Barbara are manipulating light on superconducting chips, and forging new pathways to building the quantum devices of the future –– including super-fast and powerful quantum computers.

5 Mar 2013

Superconducting Quantum-Interference Devices Help Extract Microwave Photons out of Vacuum's Quantum Noise

The researchers conducted a mirror experiment to show that by changing the position of the mirror in a vacuum, virtual particles can be transformed into real photons that can be experimentally observed. In a vacuum, there is energy and noise, the existence of which follows the uncertainty principle in quantum mechanics.

27 Feb 2013

New Way of Emitting Photons Advances Future of Quantum Computing

Researchers have discovered a new way of emitting photons one at a time. They have constructed semiconductor nanowires with "quantum dots" of unprecedented quality - a discovery with implications for the future of quantum computing.

22 Feb 2013

Efficient Triangles Finding Algorithm Holds Potential for Quantum Computing

Two papers about minimising effort took CQT researchers to the prestigious ACM-SIAM SODA conference in New Orleans in January. The CQT computer scientists and their collaborators set bounds on the amount of work that needs to be done to solve two different problems.

21 Feb 2013

Quantum Computing News

BlackBerry Founders Partner to Establish Quantum Valley Investments

DFG Sets Up New Research Units to Explore Quantum Systems, Cell Processes and More

Interactions Between Magnetic Spin and Mechanical Vibration Open Up Interesting Applications in Quantum World

Optical Control of TI Photoemission Offers Potential Applications in Quantum Computing

Ion Trap Technology Considered as a Scalable Option for Quantum Information Processing

Naturally Occurring Topological Insulator Retrieved from Abandoned Gold Mine

Light Manipulated on Superconducting Chips to Build Quantum Computers

Superconducting Quantum-Interference Devices Help Extract Microwave Photons out of Vacuum's Quantum Noise

New Way of Emitting Photons Advances Future of Quantum Computing

Efficient Triangles Finding Algorithm Holds Potential for Quantum Computing

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

SideKick QCL Controller: Low-Noise Laser Control Solution

LabOne Q: An Intuitive Software Framework for Scalable Quantum Computing

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Repeat-Until-Success Algorithm for Quantum Gate Decomposition

Researchers Exploit the Color Centers in Diamond to Enhance Dynamic Nuclear Polarization Processes for NMR Applications

Application of Electro-Optic Phase Modulator in Pound-Drever Hall Technique for Laser Frequency Stabilization

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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

1Hubble Finds Evidence of Black Hole's Impact on Stellar Activity

2Quark Entanglement Observed in High-Energy Collisions

3James Webb Telescope Reveals a Novel Class of Galaxy in the Early Universe

4Quantum Space Sensor to Fight Climate Change

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