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Researchers Reach Milestone in Quantum Standardization

November 26, 2019

The new method, called cycle benchmarking, allows researchers to assess the potential of scalability and to compare one quant...

New Laser Opens up Large, Underused Region of the Electromagnetic Spectrum

November 15, 2019

Terahertz frequency laser paves the way for better sensing, imaging, and communications

Structured Light Promises Path to Faster, More Secure Communications

October 30, 2019

Quantum mechanics is embracing patterns of light to create an alphabet that can be leveraged to build a light-based quantum n...

Extracting Hidden Quantum Information from a Light Source

October 25, 2019

Researchers report a new technique that uses image distillation to extract quantum information from an illuminated sourc...

Weaving Quantum Processors out of Laser Light

October 18, 2019

Researchers open a new avenue to quantum computing with a breakthrough experiment: a large-scale quantum processor made entir...

Picoscience and a Plethora of New Materials

October 7, 2019

Picoscience involves designing the materials theoretically, fabricating them, and characterizing their properties

2,000 Atoms in Two Places at Once

October 2, 2019

A new record of quantum superposition

Quantum Material Goes Where None Have Gone Before

October 1, 2019

Alloy behaves strangely while traversing potential 'spin liquid' state

Machine Learning at the Quantum Lab

September 27, 2019

Scientists' machine-learning approach reduces qubit measuring time and the number of measurements by a factor of approxi...

Scientists Discover a New, Long-Hypothesized Material State

September 5, 2019

Material state has a signature of quantum disordered liquid-like magnetic moments

Physicists Mash Quantum and Gravity and Find Time, but Not as We Know It

August 28, 2019

Discovery arises from an experiment designed to bring together elements of the two big—but contradictory—physics ...

New Design Strategy Brightens up the Future of Perovskite-Based Light-Emitting Diodes

August 12, 2019

A myriad of different types of LED exist nowadays, which has been made possible by advances in our understanding of quantum m...

Unique Electrical Properties in Quantum Materials Can Be Controlled Using Light

August 6, 2019

New research on Weyl semimetals, a class of quantum materials, unlocks unique quantum properties that can be used to create l...

Light for the Nanoworld

August 5, 2019

Quantum light sources pave the way for optical circuits

Stanford Physicists Count Sound Particles with Quantum Microphone

July 29, 2019

Device could eventually lead to smaller, more efficient quantum computers that operate by manipulating sound rather than...

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