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New quantum record: Transmon qubit coherence reaches millisecond threshold
On July 8, 2025, physicists from Aalto University in Finland published a transmon qubit coherence measurement in Nature Communications that dramatically surpasses previous scientifically published records. The millisecond ...
Quantum Physics
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Cracking the quantum code: Light and glass are set to transform computing
European researchers are developing quantum computers using light and glass, in a collaboration that promises breakthroughs in computing power, battery technology and scientific discovery.
Optics & Photonics
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Physicists reveal how a lone spinon emerges in quantum magnetic models
Researchers from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw and the University of British Columbia have described how a so-called lone spinon—an exotic quantum excitation that is a single unpaired spin—can arise ...
Condensed Matter
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Individual defects in superconducting quantum circuits imaged for the first time
Individual defects in superconducting quantum circuits have been imaged for the first time, thanks to research by scientists at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in collaboration with Chalmers University of Technology ...
Superconductivity
Jul 7, 2025
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An approach to realize heralded photon storage in a Rydberg superatom
Quantum technologies, systems that operate leveraging quantum mechanical effects, have the potential to outperform classical technologies in some specific tasks. Over the past decades, some researchers have also been trying ...
Quantum enhancement discovery could improve medical technologies
Technologies such as biomedical imaging and spectroscopy could be enhanced by a discovery in research that involved several institutions, including the University of Glasgow. Scientists have found that two-photon processes, ...
Optics & Photonics
Jul 7, 2025
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Light and heavy electrons cooperate in magic-angle superconductors
Electrons play many roles in solid materials. When they are weakly bound and able to travel—i.e., mobile—they can enable electrical conduction. When they are bound, or "heavy," they can act as insulators. However, in ...
Superconductivity
Jul 7, 2025
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Improving randomness may be the key to more powerful quantum computers
Understanding randomness is crucial in many fields. From computer science and engineering to cryptography and weather forecasting, studying and interpreting randomness helps us simulate real-world phenomena, design algorithms ...
Physicists create tunable system for enhanced quantum sensing
Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, have developed a tunable system that paves the way for more accurate sensing in a variety of technologies, including biomedical diagnostics. The result is ...
Optics & Photonics
Jul 3, 2025
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Quantum equivalent of thermodynamics' second law discovered for entanglement manipulation
Just over 200 years after French engineer and physicist Sadi Carnot formulated the second law of thermodynamics, an international team of researchers has unveiled an analogous law for the quantum world. This second law of ...
General Physics
Jul 3, 2025
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Quantum computer simulates spontaneous symmetry breaking at zero temperature
For the first time, an international team of scientists has experimentally simulated spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) at zero temperature using a superconducting quantum processor. This achievement, which was accomplished ...
Quantum Physics
Jul 2, 2025
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Breaking Ohm's law: Nonlinear currents emerge in symmetry-broken materials
In a review just published in Nature Materials, researchers take aim at the oldest principle in electronics: Ohm's law.
Condensed Matter
Jul 2, 2025
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Strong magnetic fields flip angular momentum dynamics in magnetovortical matter
Angular momentum is a fundamental quantity in physics that describes the rotational motion of objects. In quantum physics, it encompasses both the intrinsic spin of particles and their orbital motion around a point. These ...
Condensed Matter
Jul 2, 2025
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Unique method enables simulation of error-correctable quantum computers
Quantum computers still face a major hurdle on their pathway to practical use cases: their limited ability to correct the arising computational errors. To develop truly reliable quantum computers, researchers must be able ...
Quantum Physics
Jul 2, 2025
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Quantum protocol achieves Heisenberg-limited measurement precision with robust spin states
Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have achieved exciting progress in quantum metrology, a field that harnesses quantum effects to make measurements with unprecedented accuracy. Their newly developed ...
Quantum Physics
Jul 1, 2025
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Photon 'time bins' and signal stability show promise for practical quantum communication via fiber optics
Researchers at the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology (Leibniz IPHT) in Jena, Germany, together with international collaborators, have developed two complementary methods that could make quantum communication via fiber ...
Optics & Photonics
Jul 1, 2025
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Q&A: Companies are racing to develop the first useful quantum computer—ultracold neutral atoms could be the key
The race to build the first useful quantum computer is on and may revolutionize the world with brand new capabilities, from medicine to freight logistics.
Quantum Physics
Jun 30, 2025
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Entropy engineering opens new avenue for robust quantum anomalous Hall effect in 2D magnets
A research team from the University of Wollongong's (UOW) Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials (ISEM) has addressed a 40-year-old quantum puzzle, unlocking a new pathway to creating next-generation electronic ...
Condensed Matter
Jun 30, 2025
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New superheavy isotope reveals complex relationship between quantum effects and fission
In a study published in Physical Review Letters, scientists at GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung have discovered a new superheavy isotope, 257Sg (seaborgium), whose properties are providing new insights into ...
Enhanced quantum computers and beyond: Exploring magnons with superconducting qubits
Devices taking advantage of the collective quantum behavior of spin excitations in magnetic materials—known as magnons—have the potential to improve quantum computing devices. However, using magnons in quantum devices ...
Superconductivity
Jun 30, 2025
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