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Remote Doping Approach Could Enhance Solar Conversion in Quantum Dot-Based Photovoltaic Cells

The performance of solar cells that consist of semiconductor nanoparticles surrounded by ligand molecules is now easier to control.

14 Nov 2017

Laser-Generated Plasma can Provide Insights into Emissions from the Sun

Researchers have discovered that plasma-generating lasers can offer in-depth knowledge of the bursts of subatomic particles taking place in deep space.

13 Nov 2017

IBM Announces Significant Quantum Processor Upgrades for IBM Q Early-Access Commercial Systems

IBM announced today two significant quantum processor upgrades for its IBM Q early-access commercial systems.

13 Nov 2017

Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors Achieve Record Detection Efficiency

Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) pave the way for considerable enhancement of detection efficiency (DE) when compared with other semiconducting detectors, thereby allowing various advanced applications in quantum information technologies.

10 Nov 2017

Spin Liquids Provide Potential Pathway to Quantum Computing and High-Temperature Superconductivity

The existence of an unusual disordered electron spin state in a metal has been discovered and described by Ames Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy. This breakthrough may offer a unique way for searching and exploring frustrated magnets.

10 Nov 2017

Center of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery to be Opened at Swinburne

Minister for Education and Training, Simon Birmingham, has opened the Australian Research Council’s $31.3 million Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery at Swinburne.

10 Nov 2017

Researchers Lead National Effort to Enhance Next Generation of Gravitational Wave Detectors

Stanford scientists will lead a new national cooperative effort, the LIGO Scientific Collaboration Center for Coatings Research, to improve detection of gravitational waves at the twin LIGO facilities.

10 Nov 2017

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Observes Light Echo of Exploded Supernova

Light from a supernova explosion in the nearby starburst galaxy M82 is reverberating off a huge dust cloud in interstellar space.

10 Nov 2017

Researchers Identify a New Layered Superconducting Material Based on Tin and Arsenic

The layered superconducting material system is defined by a crystal structure wherein a Na layer (the spacer layer) and a SnAs layer (in which As and Sn are two-dimensionally bonded to develop superconductivity) are alternately laminated.

9 Nov 2017

Physicists Get One Step Closer to Discovering Dark Photons in the Universe

In the last few years of its functioning, a particle collider located in Northern California was refocused to look for the existence of new particles that may assist in filling the gap in our knowledge of the universe.

9 Nov 2017

Astronomers Discover Remarkable Zombie Star that Exploded Multiple Times

It’s the celestial equivalent of a horror movie villain—a star that wouldn’t stay dead.

9 Nov 2017

Quantum Tunneling Shows Promise for Solar Storage and Biosensing

Researchers at the University of Sydney have made use of quantum techniques for understanding the electrolysis of water, which is considered to be the application of an electric current to H2O in order to produce the constituent elements oxygen and hydrogen.

8 Nov 2017

Quantum Science News

Remote Doping Approach Could Enhance Solar Conversion in Quantum Dot-Based Photovoltaic Cells

Laser-Generated Plasma can Provide Insights into Emissions from the Sun

IBM Announces Significant Quantum Processor Upgrades for IBM Q Early-Access Commercial Systems

Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors Achieve Record Detection Efficiency

Spin Liquids Provide Potential Pathway to Quantum Computing and High-Temperature Superconductivity

Center of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery to be Opened at Swinburne

Researchers Lead National Effort to Enhance Next Generation of Gravitational Wave Detectors

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Observes Light Echo of Exploded Supernova

Researchers Identify a New Layered Superconducting Material Based on Tin and Arsenic

Physicists Get One Step Closer to Discovering Dark Photons in the Universe

Astronomers Discover Remarkable Zombie Star that Exploded Multiple Times

Quantum Tunneling Shows Promise for Solar Storage and Biosensing

UChicago Scientists Observe a New Quantum Behavior in Atoms

New Quantum Materials Pave Way Towards 3D Electronic Devices

Using Ultracold Trapped Atoms to Simulate Critical Quantum Phenomena

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3UK Science and Technology Secretary, Peter Kyle, Visits Universal Quantum to Discuss Quantum Innovation and Leadership

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