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Optics & Photonics Apr 8, 2025

Researchers demonstrate the UK's first long-distance ultra-secure communication over a quantum network

Researchers have successfully demonstrated the UK's first long-distance ultra-secure transfer of data over a quantum communications network, including the UK's first long-distance quantum-secured video call.

Optics & Photonics Apr 2, 2025

A router for photons: Transducer could enable superconducting quantum networks

Applied physicists at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have created a photon router that could plug into quantum networks to create robust optical interfaces for noise-sensitive ...

General Physics Mar 28, 2025

Physicist revisits the computational limits of life and Schrödinger's essential question in the era of quantum computing

More than 80 years ago, Erwin Schrödinger, a theoretical physicist steeped in the philosophy of Schopenhauer and the Upanishads, delivered a series of public lectures at Trinity College, Dublin, which eventually came to be ...

Optics & Photonics Mar 25, 2025

Cascaded-mode interferometer could replace beam-splitting waveguides for fiber optics

Interferometers, devices that can modulate aspects of light, play the important role of modulating and switching light signals in fiber-optic communications networks and are frequently used for gas sensing and optical computing.

Optics & Photonics Mar 5, 2025

Cold atoms on a chip: Opening the doors to accessible quantum research

UC Santa Barbara researchers are working to move cold atom quantum experiments and applications from the laboratory tabletop to chip-based systems, opening new possibilities for sensing, precision timekeeping, quantum computing ...

Bio & Medicine Mar 3, 2025

Quantum properties in atom-thick semiconductors offer new way to detect electrical signals in cells

For decades, scientists have relied on electrodes and dyes to track the electrical activity of living cells. Now, engineers at the University of California San Diego have discovered that quantum materials just a single atom ...

Optics & Photonics Mar 3, 2025

A quantum computing startup says it is already making millions of light-powered chips

American quantum computing startup PsiQuantum announced yesterday that it has cracked a significant puzzle on the road to making the technology useful: manufacturing quantum chips in useful quantities.

Nanophysics Feb 25, 2025

Using weak spots in semiconductor nanoplatelets to direct nanoscale assemblies

Cadmium selenide nanoplatelets provide a promising foundation for the development of innovative electronic materials. Researchers around the world have taken a particular interest in these tiny platelets, which are only a ...

Optics & Photonics Feb 20, 2025

Microwave-to-optics transduction: Research demonstrates readout technique for superconducting qubits

Joint research demonstrating the ability to readout superconducting qubits with an optical transducer was published in Nature Physics.

Optics & Photonics Feb 13, 2025

Fabrication method advances high-performance photon detector technology

From high-speed communication to quantum computing and sensing, the detection, transmission, and manipulation of light (photons) have transformed modern electronics. Central to these systems are photon detectors, which detect ...

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