Quantum Spin in Sheets of Hexagonal Boron Nitride for Reading Out Quantum States
Quantum Spin in Sheets of Hexagonal Boron Nitride are Reading Out Quantum States. The sheer volume of data held in a quantum bit vice a classical binary bit’s 1 or 0 is the strength behind quantum computing as a “revolutionary technology.” But to harness this capability, hardware must be developed that can access, measure and […]
Bose grants for 2018 fund research at the frontier of discovery
Eight MIT faculty members have been awarded one of the Institute’s most respected honors: the Professor Amar G. Bose Research Grant, which supports work that is unorthodox, and potentially world-changing. The topics of the grants range from nanoscale textiles that purify drinking water, to revolutionary new approaches in catalysis, high-speed logic, and drug delivery. The awards are […]
Canada’s “Quantum Valley”
Canada’s “Quantum Valley” In 2013, Canadian entrepreneur Mike Lazaridis was ranked tenth on a list of the most powerful people in Canada. “An avid believer in quantum information science, Lazaridis founded a new research center for that area of study in Ontario.” The center is built to stringent standards for quantum and nanotechnology experiments. Controls […]
U.K. Translating Quantum Technology into Practice
Translating Quantum Technology into Practice. In June 2018, researchers in the launched the U.K.’s first quantum network. The metro-area network provides secure quantum communications between Cambridge University’s Electrical Engineering Division in West Cambridge and Toshiba Research Europe Ltd (TREL). The network has since been extended to other sites around the U.K., including a research and development […]
Argonne National Laboratory: Reducing Quantum Noise
Argonne National Laboratory: Reducing Quantum Noise. Many current quantum information applications suffer from decoherence. Decoherence is the loss of quantum information due to environmental noise inherent to quantum hardware. Magnetism, temperature fluctuations in and around the device, and electrical currents contribute greatest to this noise. U.S. Department of Energy and Argonne National Laboratory scientists “have […]
Teleportation: Science Fiction or Science Fact. Quantum Computing is Advancing the Notion.
Teleportation: Science Fiction or Science Fact. Quantum Computing is Advancing the Notion. Quantum photon entanglement has been proven to enable near-perfect secrecy of data transmission. In a sense, quantum entanglement utilizes teleportation, albeit very simplistic compared to what we find in the likes of Star Trek episodes. Research into quantum computing has led to what we […]
Crystals Coupled with Current Fiber-optic Links for Low Loss Quantum Information Transfer
Crystals Coupled with Current Fiber-optic Links for Low Loss Quantum Information Transfer. For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that crystals manufactured by lasers within a glass matrix maintain full ferroelectric functionality. What does this do for quantum computing? Applications for the technology include use in current fiber optics used for data transmission – an […]
Moore’s Law Nearing Its End; What Could Replace Silicon?
Moore’s Law Nearing Its End; What Could Replace Silicon? Gallium oxide, graphene, carbon nanotubes. Sound familiar? Maybe, probably not. Quantum computing has a lot of focus in the media and without question, gains toward achieving quantum supremacy are occurring often. However, not all are believers that ‘quantum is coming’; at least anytime soon. If not […]
60 Carbon Atoms Contain an Entire Quantum Computer
60 Carbon Atoms Contain an Entire Quantum Computer; or so might one think, if fully understanding and controlling the buckminsterfullerene were to come to fruition. The most symmetric molecule known, the “buckyball” is both small enough to observe quantum mechanical principles and large enough to be considered a “huge system.” Just how huge is this […]
Technique could boost resolution of tissue imaging as much as tenfold
Imaging deep inside biological tissue has long been a significant challenge. That is because light tends to be scattered by complex media such as biological tissue, bouncing around inside until it comes out again at a variety of different angles. This distorts the focus of optical microscopes, reducing both their resolution and imaging depth. Using […]