Category: Research

Heisenberg Limit 3x More Valuable Than thought?

Heisenberg Limit 3x More Valuable Than thought? New Math Makes Scientists More Certain About Quantum Uncertainties Excerpts and salient points ~ +  Quantum measurements, at the core of next-generation technologies including quantum computing, quantum cryptography, and ultra-sensitive electronics, may face a new hurdle as system sensitivities brush up against Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle. New statistical calculations […]

Topological Insulators Found More Fragile Than Thought

Topological Insulators Found More Fragile Than Thought Researchers Explain the Strange Electron Flow in Future Materials Excerpts and salient points ~ +  Electrons race along the surface of certain unusual crystalline materials, except that sometimes they don’t. Two new studies from Princeton researchers and their collaborators explain the source of the surprising behavior and chart […]

Quantum Memories Go The Distance

Quantum Memories Go The Distance Scientists entangled quantum memories linked over long distances Excerpts and salient points ~ +  To be most useful, quantum networks would need to span the globe. Scientists previously have entangled individual particles of light, or photons, separated by 1,200 kilometers (SN: 6/15/17). But that entanglement couldn’t be stored. Distant quantum […]

Quantum Dot Technology Advances With Increasingly Stable, Multi-Electron Dots

Quantum Dot Technology Advances With Increasingly Stable, Multi-Electron Dots Artificial Atoms Could Usher In the Quantum Revolution Key points… +  Australian scientists have used artificial atoms called quantum dots to make a quantum silicon chip they say is surprisingly stable. The quantum dots make quantum bits, or qubits, and the qubits’s instability has been a […]

U.S. Proposal Would Double Quantum Information Science Spending by 2022

U.S. Proposal Would Double Quantum Information Science Spending by 2022 Trump admin wants funding doubled to make US an AI powerhouse Excerpts and salient points ~ +  The Trump administration wants Congress to double spending on AI R&D funding from $973 million to nearly $2 billion by 2022 and to double spending on quantum information […]

Discerning the “Fine Line” Between Quantum and Classical Computing

Discerning the “Fine Line” Between Quantum and Classical Computing AI method determines quantum advantage for advanced computing Excerpts and salient points ~ +  Russian researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Valiev Institute of Physics and Technology and ITMO University have created a neural network that learned to predict the behavior of a […]

U.S. President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology Narrows Focus to Quantum Information Science

U.S. President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology Narrows Focus to Quantum Information Science Presidential Advisers Push for National Network to Support Quantum and AI Advancement Excerpts and salient points ~ +  The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, or PCAST—reconstituted by executive order in October—held its first working meeting Monday [February […]

Quantum Computing’s Research and Development Leads to New Technologies

Quantum Computing’s Research and Development Leads to New Technologies Where Computing Is Headed—Beyond Quantum Excerpts and salient points ~ +  Startups as well as tech giants including Alphabet Inc.’s Google and International Business Machines Corp. are developing quantum computers, which harness the properties of quantum physics to sort through a vast number of possibilities in […]