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Nanophysics Jun 5, 2006

Shuttling Electrons

“We are trying to understand quantum nano-electro-mechanical systems,” Jason Twamley explains to PhysOrg.com. “These systems display richer dynamics and interactions than one can obtain with quantum optical systems, ...

General Physics May 23, 2006

A Quantum CPU: the Pentium Q?

A new design scheme for a quantum processor core makes potential quantum computers more technically feasible, more efficient, and in many cases faster by keeping all of the quantum bits active all the time, rather than switching ...

Jul 7, 2005

Fundamental limitation to quantum computers

Quantum computers that store information in so-called quantum bits (or qubits) will be confronted with a fundamental limitation. This is the claim made by Dutch theoretical physicists from the Foundation for Fundamental ...

Jul 4, 2005

HP researchers propose new path to optical quantum computing

Researchers from HP Laboratories in Bristol, UK, have proposed an approach to distributed optical quantum computing with a technique that is highly efficient, flexible and scalable.

Superconductivity Jul 5, 2023

New tool helps improve quantum computing circuit component

Researchers use a new tool to help improve a key component in commercially produced quantum computing circuits. The team of scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Ames National Laboratory in partnership with ...

Quantum Physics Apr 20, 2023

Heaviest Schrödinger cat achieved by putting a small crystal into a superposition of two oscillation states

Even if you are not a quantum physicist, you will most likely have heard of Schrödinger's famous cat. Erwin Schrödinger came up with the feline that can be alive and dead at the same time in a thought experiment in 1935. ...

Optics & Photonics Mar 13, 2023

A quantum playground for exploring light topology

A quantum device fabricated by Zhejiang University researchers could help to advance the design of quantum computers as it offers topological control over the units that store information within them. The team's results were ...

Nanophysics Nov 2, 2022

Magnetic molecules on surfaces: Advances and challenges in molecular nanoscience

In the field of molecular magnetism, the design of devices with technological applications at the nanoscale—quantum computing, molecular spintronics, magnetic cooling, nanomedicine, high-density information storage, etc.—requires ...

Quantum Physics Nov 2, 2022

A method to characterize large quantum computers using only a single measurement setting

Quantum devices are becoming ever more complex and powerful. Researchers at the University of Innsbruck, in collaboration with the Johannes Kepler University Linz and the University of Technology Sydney, are now presenting ...

Quantum Physics Oct 6, 2022

In race toward quantum computing, North Carolina takes center stage

In the 1950s, computers were bulky, inefficient and limited. They ate up entire rooms but couldn't go beyond rudimentary calculations.

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