Category: Research

Ireland’s Quantum Computing Research Efforts Point Toward Efficient, Molecular Qubits

Ireland’s Quantum Computing Research Efforts Point Toward Efficient, Molecular Qubits AMBER researchers’ discovery moves the dial in quantum computin Researchers from AMBER, the SFI Research Centre for Advanced Materials and BioEngineering Research, the School of Physics and the CRANN Institute, at Trinity College Dublin, have utilised their model and simulations of the atomic world to […]

Collisional Cooling Materials to Nano-Kelvins May Lead to Molecule-Based Quantum Computing

Collisional Cooling Materials to Nano-Kelvins May Lead to Molecule-Based Quantum Computing New ‘refrigerator’ super-cools molecules to nano-Kelvin temperatures For years, scientists have looked for ways to cool molecules to ultracold temperatures, at which point the molecules should slow to a crawl, allowing scientists to precisely control their quantum behavior. This could enable researchers to use […]

Enabling Spintronic Computing Through Control of Electromagnetics

Enabling Spintronic Computing Through Control of Electromagnetics New handle for controlling electromagnetic properties could enable spintronic computing In brief… +  Materials scientists at Duke University have shown the first clear example that a material’s transition into a magnet can control instabilities in its crystalline structure that cause it to change from a conductor to an […]

Spinning Tunes or Tuning Spins, UC Berkeley Studies Antiferromagnets for Reduced-Size Computing Devices

Spinning Tunes or Tuning Spins, UC Berkeley Studies Antiferromagnets for Reduced-Size Computing Devices Fine-Tuning Magnetic Spin for Faster, Smaller Memory Devices Image:  An exotic magnetic device developed by researchers at Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley could further miniaturize computing devices and personal electronics without loss of performance. Scale bar shown above is 10 micrometers (10 […]

MIT Takes Great Step Toward Majorana Fermion Qubits

MIT Takes Great Step Toward Majorana Fermion Qubits First sighting of mysterious Majorana fermion on a common metal Physicists at MIT and elsewhere have observed evidence of Majorana fermions — particles that are theorized to also be their own antiparticle — on the surface of a common metal: gold. This is the first sighting of […]

DARPA Award to Accelerate Scalable Cold Atom Quantum Computing

DARPA Award to Accelerate Scalable Cold Atom Quantum Computing ColdQuanta Awarded Contract of up to $7.4M from DARPA to Accelerate Development of Scalable Cold Atom Quantum Computer ColdQuanta, the quantum atomics company, has been selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop a scalable, cold-atom-based quantum computing hardware and software platform that […]

Getting More Life Out of Rydberg Atoms By Laser Trapping

Getting More Life Out of Rydberg Atoms By Laser Trapping First successful laser trapping of circular Rydberg atoms Key points… +  Rydberg atoms, which are atoms in a highly excited state, have several unique and advantageous properties, including a particularly long lifetime and large sensitivities to external fields. These properties make them valuable for a […]

Caltech Researchers Make Way Toward Quantum Internet With Help From Ytterbium Ion

Caltech Researchers Make Way Toward Quantum Internet With Help From Ytterbium Ion Tiny optical cavities could make quantum networks possible Engineers at Caltech have shown that atoms in optical cavities — tiny boxes for light — could lead to the creation of a quantum internet. Their National Science Foundation-funded work was published in the journal […]

First-Ever Natural Language Processing Executed on Quantum Computer

First-Ever Natural Language Processing Executed on Quantum Computer Cambridge Quantum Computing Performs the World’s First Quantum Natural Language Processing Experiment CAMBRIDGE, UK, April 7, 2020 –Cambridge Quantum Computing (“CQC”) announces that they have used the “natively quantum” structure of natural language to open up an entirely new realm of possible applications by translating grammatical sentences […]