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Scientists Build Bridge for Full-Scale Quantum Computing

Dependable qubit-based calculating devices will not stand alone when they arrive on the computing scene. But to reach their fullest potential, these devices must cooperate with existing scientific computing resources.

17 Nov 2020

Removing Random Doping allows for Reproducible Manufacture of Quantum Devices

A UNSW-led collaboration has found that removing random doping in quantum electronic devices dramatically improves their reproducibility – a key requirement for future applications such as quantum-information processing and spintronics.

17 Nov 2020

Tiny Device Enables Quantum Computers, Communications with Higher Performance

Scientists from the Quantum Engineering Technology Labs (QET Labs) at the University of Bristol’s, as well as from Université Côte d‘Azur, have developed a new miniaturized light detector that can perform in-depth quantification of quantum features of light like never before.

10 Nov 2020

'Unfolding' Techniques can Improve the Readout of Quantum States from Quantum Computers

Borrowing a page from high-energy physics and astronomy textbooks, a team of physicists and computer scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has successfully adapted and applied a common error-reduction technique to the field of quantum computing.

6 Nov 2020

Using Quantum Properties of Light to Develop Communications Network

Researchers at the University of Rochester and Cornell University have taken an important step toward developing a communications network that exchanges information across long distances by using photons, mass-less measures of light that are key elements of quantum computing and quantum communications systems.

5 Nov 2020

New Study Opens the Path Towards Control of Quantum Walks

Generally, when people flip a coin and get heads, they would take a step to the left. And if they get Tails, they would move towards the right.

30 Oct 2020

Experts Aim to Develop Quantum Sensing Devices to Understand the Hidden Secrets of Quantum Materials

When it comes to fully understanding the hidden secrets of quantum materials, it takes one to know one, scientists say: Only tools that also operate on quantum principles can get us there.

30 Oct 2020

New Approach Creates High-Precision Nanoribbons for Quantum Information Science Applications

An international multi-institution team of scientists has synthesized graphene nanoribbons - ultrathin strips of carbon atoms - on a titanium dioxide surface using an atomically precise method that removes a barrier for custom-designed carbon nanostructures required for quantum information sciences.

27 Oct 2020

A New Technique for Carrying Out Sensitive Quantum Operations on Atoms

Hitting a specific point on a screen with a laser pointer during a presentation isn't easy - even the tiniest nervous shaking of the hand becomes one big scrawl at a distance.

23 Oct 2020

Ancient Clay May be Key Piece in Puzzle to How Life on Earth Began

An ancient clay mineral called greenalite that formed deep in the ocean, near hot seafloor vents, may have played a crucial role in the emergence of life on Earth, researchers from The University of Western Australia and California Institute of Technology have found.

23 Oct 2020