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New Class of Highly Versatile Quantum Dots Excel as Single-Photon Emitters

A new class of quantum dots deliver a stable stream of single, spectrally tunable infrared photons under ambient conditions and at room temperature, unlike other single photon emitters. This breakthrough opens a range of practical applications, including quantum communication, quantum metrology, medical imaging and diagnostics, and clandestine labeling.

26 Mar 2021

Particle Physicists Search for Hints of New Physics in the Subatomic World

Peer deeper into the heart of the atom than any microscope allows and scientists hypothesize that you will find a rich world of particles popping in and out of the vacuum, decaying into other particles, and adding to the weirdness of the visible world. These subatomic particles are governed by the quantum nature of the Universe and find tangible, physical form in experimental results.

25 Mar 2021

Astronomers Capture a Signature of Magnetic Fields at the Edge of M87’s Black Hole

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, who produced the first ever image of a black hole, has today revealed a new view of the massive object at the centre of the Messier 87 (M87) galaxy: how it looks in polarised light. This is the first time astronomers have been able to measure polarisation, a signature of magnetic fields, this close to the edge of a black hole. The observations are key to explaining how the M87 galaxy, located 55 million light-years away, is able to launch energetic jets from its core.

25 Mar 2021

Study Shows Effect of Gravitational Influence on Star Cluster Nearest to Sun

Data obtained from the European Space Agency’s Gaia star-mapping satellite has demonstrated interesting evidence that the closest cluster of stars to the Sun is being disturbed by the gravitational effect of a huge but unobserved structure in the Milky Way galaxy.

25 Mar 2021

CSIRO's Dish to Support One of the First Commercial Moon Landings

The iconic Parkes radio telescope, owned and operated by Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, will help businesses to literally reach for the Moon by providing ground station support for one of the first commercial lunar landings later this year.

25 Mar 2021

A Simple Laser to Create Higher-Dimensional Classically Entangled Light

Tailoring light is much like tailoring cloth, cutting and snipping to turn a bland fabric into one with some desired pattern. In the case of light, the tailoring is usually done in the spatial degrees of freedom, such as its amplitude and phase (the "pattern" of light), and its polarization, while the cutting and snipping might be control with spatial light modulators and the like.

24 Mar 2021

Novel Thermometer can Quickly Measure Temperatures During Quantum Calculations

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, have developed a novel type of thermometer that can simply and quickly measure temperatures during quantum calculations with extremely high accuracy. The breakthrough provides a benchmarking tool for quantum computing of great value - and opens up for experiments in the exciting field of quantum thermodynamics.

24 Mar 2021

New Results Challenge the Established Laws of Particle Physics

When so-called beauty quarks are produced during the collision of high-energy proton beams in the Large Hadron Collider - the particle accelerator at CERN in Geneva - they decay almost immediately on the spot.

24 Mar 2021

Abu Dhabi’s Technology Innovation Institute to Build UAE’s First Quantum Computer

Work is underway to build a quantum computer in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates, ushering an important milestone for the region in this breakthrough era in computing.

24 Mar 2021

Novel Thermometer can Accelerate Quantum Computer Development

24 Mar 2021

Machine Learning Approach Corrects Information Distortion in Quantum Systems

Army-funded researchers demonstrated a machine learning approach that corrects quantum information in systems composed of photons, improving the outlook for deploying quantum sensing and quantum communications technologies on the battlefield.

23 Mar 2021

Ordered Vacancy can be a New Degree of Freedom for Manipulation of Quantum Materials

Crystals inherently possess imperfections. Vacancies, as the simplest form of point defects, significantly alter the optical, thermal, and electrical properties of materials. Well-known examples include colour centres in many gemstones, the nitrogen-vacancy centre in diamond, vacancy migration in solid-state batteries, and the metal-insulator transition in phase-change materials.

23 Mar 2021

Skoltech Scientist Bridges the Gap Between Quantum Simulators and Quantum Computers

A researcher from Skoltech has filled in the gaps connecting quantum simulators with more traditional quantum computers, discovering a new computationally universal model of quantum computation, the variational model. The paper was published as a Letter in the journal Physical Review A. The work made the Editors’ Suggestion list.

23 Mar 2021

Research Solves a Key Problem of Usability for Quantum Machine Learning

Many machine learning algorithms on quantum computers suffer from the dreaded "barren plateau" of unsolvability, where they run into dead ends on optimization problems. This challenge had been relatively unstudied--until now. Rigorous theoretical work has established theorems that guarantee whether a given machine learning algorithm will work as it scales up on larger computers.

22 Mar 2021

Study Explores Relationship Between Atom Size and Other Atomic Properties

A study from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, has yielded new answers to fundamental questions about the relationship between the size of an atom and its other properties, such as electronegativity and energy.

19 Mar 2021

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New Class of Highly Versatile Quantum Dots Excel as Single-Photon Emitters

Particle Physicists Search for Hints of New Physics in the Subatomic World

Astronomers Capture a Signature of Magnetic Fields at the Edge of M87’s Black Hole

Study Shows Effect of Gravitational Influence on Star Cluster Nearest to Sun

CSIRO's Dish to Support One of the First Commercial Moon Landings

A Simple Laser to Create Higher-Dimensional Classically Entangled Light

Novel Thermometer can Quickly Measure Temperatures During Quantum Calculations

New Results Challenge the Established Laws of Particle Physics

Abu Dhabi’s Technology Innovation Institute to Build UAE’s First Quantum Computer

Novel Thermometer can Accelerate Quantum Computer Development

Machine Learning Approach Corrects Information Distortion in Quantum Systems

Ordered Vacancy can be a New Degree of Freedom for Manipulation of Quantum Materials

Skoltech Scientist Bridges the Gap Between Quantum Simulators and Quantum Computers

Research Solves a Key Problem of Usability for Quantum Machine Learning

Study Explores Relationship Between Atom Size and Other Atomic Properties

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