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Tiny optical modulator could enable giant future quantum computers
Researchers have made a major advance in quantum computing with a new device that is nearly 100 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair.
Optics & Photonics
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Colloidal quantum dot photodiodes integrated on metasurfaces for compact SWIR sensors
This week, at the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM 2025), imec, a research and innovation hub in advanced semiconductor technologies, successfully demonstrated the integration of colloidal quantum dot photodiodes ...
Optics & Photonics
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All-optical modulation in silicon achieved via an electron avalanche process
Over the past decades, engineers have introduced numerous technologies that rely on light and its underlying characteristics. These include photonic and quantum systems that could advance imaging, communication and information ...
Theoretical results could lead to faster, more secure quantum technology
University of Iowa researchers have discovered a method to "purify" photons, an advance that could make optical quantum technologies more efficient and more secure.
Quantum Physics
Dec 10, 2025
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New iron telluride thin film achieves superconductivity for quantum computer chips
If quantum computing is going to become an every-day reality, we need better superconducting thin films, the hardware that enables storage and processing of quantum information. Too often, these thin films have impurities ...
Superconductivity
Dec 10, 2025
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Quantum machine learning nears practicality as partial error correction reduces hardware demands
Imagine a future where quantum computers supercharge machine learning—training models in seconds, extracting insights from massive datasets and powering next-gen AI. That future might be closer than you think, thanks to ...
Quantum Physics
Dec 10, 2025
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Quantum clues to consciousness: New research suggests the brain may harness the zero-point field
What if your conscious experiences were not just the chatter of neurons, but were connected to the hum of the universe? In a paper published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, I present new evidence indicating that conscious ...
Surprising nanoscopic heat traps found in diamonds
Diamond is famous in material science for being the best natural heat conductor on Earth—but new research reveals that, at the atomic scale, it can briefly trap heat in unexpected ways. The findings could influence how ...
Optics & Photonics
Dec 9, 2025
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Electron-phonon interactions in crystals found to be quantized by a fundamental constant
A researcher at the Department of Physics at Tohoku University has uncovered a surprising quantum phenomenon hidden inside ordinary crystals: the strength of interactions between electrons and lattice vibrations—known as ...
Condensed Matter
Dec 9, 2025
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A new traveling-wave Josephson amplifier with built-in reverse isolation
Traveling-wave parametric amplifiers (TWPAs) are electronic devices that boost weak microwave signals (i.e., electromagnetic waves with frequencies typically ranging between 1 and 100 GHz). Recently, many engineers have been ...
From light to logic: Ultrafast quantum switching in 2D materials
Scientists from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay have found a way to use light to control and read tiny quantum states inside atom-thin materials. The simple technique could pave the way for computers that are dramatically ...
Optics & Photonics
Dec 9, 2025
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Expanding the search for quantum-ready 2D materials
Quantum technologies from ultrasensitive sensors to next-generation information processors depend on the ability of quantum bits, or qubits, to maintain their delicate quantum states for a sufficiently long time to be useful.
Condensed Matter
Dec 8, 2025
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Quantifying unknown quantum states: Study explores effectiveness of existing methods
Reliably quantifying and characterizing the quantum states of various systems is highly advantageous for both quantum physics research and the development of quantum technologies. Quantifying these states typically entails ...
Electrons stay put in layers of mismatched 'quantum Legos'
Electrons can be elusive, but Cornell researchers using a new computational method can now account for where they go—or don't go—in certain layered materials.
Condensed Matter
Dec 8, 2025
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Rydberg-atom detector conquers a new spectral frontier
A team from the Faculty of Physics and the Center for Quantum Optical Technologies at the Center of New Technologies, University of Warsaw has developed a new method for measuring elusive terahertz signals using a "quantum ...
Optics & Photonics
Dec 5, 2025
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Shaping quantum light unlocks new possibilities for future technologies
Researchers from the School of Physics at Wits University, working with collaborators from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, have demonstrated how quantum light can be engineered in space and time to create high-dimensional ...
Optics & Photonics
Dec 5, 2025
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Quantum technology moves from lab to life, but widespread use remains years away
Quantum technology is accelerating out of the lab and into the real world, and a new article argues that the field now stands at a turning point—one that is similar to the early computing age that preceded the rise of the ...
Quantum Physics
Dec 4, 2025
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LHC data confirm validity of new model of hadron production—and test foundations of quantum mechanics
A boiling sea of quarks and gluons, including virtual ones—this is how we can imagine the main phase of high-energy proton collisions. It would seem that particles here have significantly more opportunities to evolve than ...
General Physics
Dec 4, 2025
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A solid-state quantum processor based on nuclear spins
Quantum computers, systems that process information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, have the potential of outperforming classical systems on some tasks. Instead of storing information as bits, like classical computers, ...
Deciphering the heavyweights of the tetraquark world
The CMS collaboration reports the first measurement of the quantum properties of a family of tetraquarks that was recently discovered at the LHC.
General Physics
Dec 3, 2025
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