The University of Sheffield has launched a new ultra-low temperature lab, expanding quantum research and education opportunities. Equipped with Oxford Instruments’ ProteoxMX dilution refrigerator, the facility will support dark matter detection and qubit research. Students and researchers will gain hands-on experience in quantum instrumentation, preparing them for future careers.
Wright Lab assistant professor David Moore, along with three colleagues from other institutions, recently proposed a novel idea of using trapped electrons and ions—technologies that are being developed as qubits for quantum computation—as ultra-sensitive particle detectors that may be able to enhance the search for the nature of dark matter, neutrinos, new forces, and more.Trapped charged particles, such as ions or electrons, are among the most studied systems for developing quantum computers (in parallel with superconducting qubits, which are under development at the Yale Quantum Institute).
The quantum computer market is an emerging and hot business. So is the quantum sensor market, where several entities are developing this technology for a range of applications.
