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Released: 19-Dec-2018 9:00 AM EST
Theory Paper Offers Alternate Explanation for Particle Patterns
Brookhaven National Laboratory

A group of physicists analyzing the patterns of particles emerging from collisions of small projectiles with large nuclei at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) say these patterns are triggered by quantum mechanical interactions among gluons, the glue-like particles that hold together the building blocks of the projectiles and nuclei.

Released: 7-Dec-2018 12:05 PM EST
University to lead $2.25 million grant for developing next-generation quantum computer
University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering

The University of Minnesota announced today that it will lead a $2.25 million grant over the next three years from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science for developing materials and device knowledge necessary for creating the next-generation of computing—the quantum computer.

Released: 5-Dec-2018 9:00 AM EST
FAU Appointed to Serve on the International Telecommunication Union of the United Nations
Florida Atlantic University

FAU is spearheading a sub-group on global quantum-safe communication standards in collaboration with leading academic institutions in Europe, Asia and throughout the world, to shape all future requirements from both a government and industry perspective.

Released: 4-Dec-2018 1:05 PM EST
Researchers demonstrate new building block in quantum computing
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Researchers with the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have demonstrated a new level of control over photons encoded with quantum information. The team's experimental system allows them to manipulate the frequency of photons to bring about superposition, a state that enables quantum operations and computing.

Released: 3-Dec-2018 12:05 PM EST
Berkeley Lab Takes a Quantum Leap in Microelectronics
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

A Q&A with Ramamoorthy Ramesh on the need for next-generation computer chips

Released: 30-Nov-2018 11:05 AM EST
Probing Quantum Physics on a Macroscopic Scale
Delft University of Technology

Why does quantum mechanics work so well for microscopic objects, yet macroscopic objects are described by ‘classical physics’? This question has bothered physicists since the development of quantum theory more than a 100 years ago. Researchers of Delft University of Technology and the University of Vienna have now devised a macroscopic system that exhibits entanglement between mechanical phonons and optical photons. They tested the entanglement using a Bell test, one of the most convincing and important tests to show a system behaves non-classically.

Released: 12-Nov-2018 11:05 AM EST
Argonne poised for pivotal discoveries and impact in a quantum world
Argonne National Laboratory

Scientists and engineers working to solve the mysteries of quantum materials need the right tool for the right job.

Released: 8-Nov-2018 5:05 AM EST
A Burst of ”Synchronous” Light
Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology

Excited photo-emitters can cooperate and radiate simultaneously, a phenomenon called superfluorescence. Researchers from Empa and ETH Zurich, together with colleagues from IBM Research Zurich, have recently been able to create this effect with long-range ordered nanocrystal superlattices. This discovery could enable future developments in LED lighting, quantum sensing, quantum communication and future quantum computing. The study has just been published in the renowned journal "Nature".

Released: 7-Nov-2018 2:05 PM EST
Scientists shuffle the deck to create materials with new quantum behaviors
Ames National Laboratory

Layered transition metal dichalcogenides or TMDCs—materials composed of metal nanolayers sandwiched between two other layers of chalcogens— have become extremely attractive to the research community due to their ability to exfoliate into 2D single layers.

Released: 2-Nov-2018 10:05 AM EDT
One step closer to complex quantum teleportation
University of Vienna

For future technologies such as quantum computers and quantum encryption, the experimental mastery of complex quantum systems is inevitable. Scientists from the University of Vienna and the Austrian Academy of Sciences have succeeded in making another leap.

Released: 30-Oct-2018 10:05 AM EDT
Argonne Hosted National Quantum Computing Workshop
Argonne National Laboratory

Industry and academia come together to explore research opportunities in quantum information sciences

Released: 29-Oct-2018 8:05 PM EDT
Trapping Atoms, Not Space Ships, with Tractor Beams
University of Adelaide

University of Adelaide researchers have delved into the realm of Star Wars and created a powerful tractor beam – or light-driven energy trap – for atoms.

Released: 29-Oct-2018 7:00 AM EDT
EU awards ten million euro to European Quantum Internet Alliance to speed up development of Quantum Internet
Delft University of Technology

Today, the European Commission announced that its Quantum Flagship Programme will contribute 10 million euro to the development of a blueprint for a future quantum internet. Applications of networks based on quantum entanglement include improving the security of for instance financial transactions, and could give inherently secure networks

Released: 25-Oct-2018 11:05 AM EDT
New Technology Designed to Prevent Network Hacking Licensed to LI Company
Stony Brook University

In the search for more secure communications technologies designed to prevent hacking, a team of Stony Brook University researchers created a technology that uses quantum memory applications at room temperatures to securely store and transfer information.

24-Oct-2018 4:45 AM EDT
Quantum Network to Test Unhackable Communications
University of Chicago

Scientists are creating a network in the Chicago area that taps the principles of quantum physics to send information. Such a link could one day form the basis for a truly secure network, which would have wide-ranging impact on communications, computing and national security. Stretching between Argonne and Fermi national laboratories, the connection will "teleport" information across 30 miles and is expected to be among the longest in the world to send secure information using quantum physics.

Released: 24-Oct-2018 10:00 AM EDT
Quantum research gets a boost at Sandia
Sandia National Laboratories

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Department of Energy has awarded Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories $8 million for quantum research — the study of the fundamental physics of all matter — at the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies.The award will fund two three-year projects enabling scientists at the two labs to build advanced tools for nanotechnology research and development.

Released: 19-Oct-2018 9:05 AM EDT
AVS and AIP Publishing Expand Partnership to Launch AVS Quantum Science
AIP Publishing

AIP Publishing and AVS: Science and Technology of Materials, Interfaces, and Processing (AVS) today announced an agreement to publish AVS Quantum Science, a new online interdisciplinary journal. The announcement coincides with the AVS 65th International Symposium & Exhibition in Long Beach, California, from October 21-26, 2018.

Released: 18-Oct-2018 2:05 PM EDT
Pushing the (Extra Cold) Frontiers of Superconducting Science
Ames National Laboratory

Ames Laboratory has developed a method to measure magnetic properties of superconducting and magnetic materials that exhibit unusual quantum behavior at very low temperatures in high magnetic fields.

Released: 4-Oct-2018 10:05 AM EDT
ORNL researchers advance quantum computing, science through six DOE awards
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory is the recipient of six awards from DOE’s Office of Science aimed at accelerating quantum information science (QIS), a burgeoning field of research increasingly seen as vital to scientific innovation and national security. The awards, which represent three Office of Science programs, were made in conjunction with the White House Summit on Advancing American Leadership in QIS and will leverage and strengthen ORNL’s established programs in quantum information processing and quantum computing.

Released: 1-Oct-2018 1:30 PM EDT
Story Tips From the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, October 2018
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

ORNL story tips: Recycled hard drives give magnets new life in motors; new organ-on-a-chip design to test radiation effects on cells that mimic breathing; supercomputers analyze molecules that could increase yield of certain rare earth elements important for energy applications

Released: 1-Oct-2018 10:05 AM EDT
A ‘Recipe Book’ that Creates Color Centers in Silicon Carbide Crystals
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Silicon carbide has enjoyed renewed interest for its potential in quantum technology. Its ability to house optically excitable defects, called color centers, has made it a strong candidate material to become the building block of quantum computing. Now, researchers have created a list of “recipes” physicists can use to create specific types of defects with desired optical properties in SiC. The team reports their findings in Applied Physics Letters.

Released: 26-Sep-2018 4:05 PM EDT
Quantum science funding flows into Argonne
Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne will receive more than $11 million in funding over three years as part of a series of grants tied to quantum information science.

Released: 25-Sep-2018 3:05 PM EDT
Department of Energy Announces $218 Million for Quantum Information Science
Department of Energy, Office of Science

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $218 million in funding for 85 research awards in the important emerging field of Quantum Information Science (QIS).

Released: 25-Sep-2018 12:50 PM EDT
Department of Energy Announces $218 Million for Quantum Information Science
Brookhaven National Laboratory

Brookhaven Lab will lead and contribute to DOE-funded research aimed at advancing next-gen technologies in computing, sensing, and other areas.

23-Sep-2018 9:00 PM EDT
Berkeley Lab to Build an Advanced Quantum Computing Testbed
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) will receive $30 million over five years from the U.S. Department of Energy to build and operate an Advanced Quantum Testbed (AQT) allowing researchers to explore superconducting quantum processors to advance scientific research

13-Sep-2018 7:05 PM EDT
Scientists Use Artificial Neural Networks to Predict New Stable Materials
University of California San Diego

Artificial neural networks—algorithms inspired by connections in the brain—have “learned” to perform a variety of tasks, from pedestrian detection in self-driving cars, to analyzing medical images, to translating languages. Now, researchers at the University of California San Diego are training artificial neural networks to predict new stable materials.

17-Sep-2018 11:05 AM EDT
After 150 years, a Breakthrough in Understanding the Conversion of CO2 to Electrofuels
Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science

Using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy, Columbia Engineers are first to observe how CO2 is activated at the electrode-electrolyte interface; their finding shifts the catalyst design from trial-and-error paradigm to a rational approach and could lead to alternative, cheaper, and safer renewable energy storage.

Released: 13-Sep-2018 2:05 PM EDT
A New Scientific Field: Quantum Metamaterials
American Technion Society

Two teams of scientists from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have collaborated to conduct groundbreaking research leading to the development of a new and innovative scientific field: Quantum Metamaterials.

Released: 5-Sep-2018 11:05 AM EDT
Heat Transfer Surprise Could Lead to Thermal Transistors
University of Michigan

As much as 100 times more heat than predicted by the standard radiation theory can flow between two nanoscale objects, even at bigger-than-nanoscale distances, researchers at the University of Michigan and the College of William and Mary have reported in the journal Nature.

Released: 4-Sep-2018 1:05 PM EDT
Light Exchange: Logic Gates Are a Step Toward Building Quantum Computers
Weizmann Institute of Science

The Weizmann Institute of Science's Prof. Barak Dayan has devised a logic gate that enables atoms and photons to securely exchange information.

Released: 4-Sep-2018 10:45 AM EDT
Story Tips from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, September 2018
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

ORNL story tips: Lab, field tests show improved building insulation performance; ORNL-developed software runs quantum programs on multiple quantum computers; ORNL moved single atoms below a crystal’s surface; certain bacteria turns mercury into methylmercury at varying rates across species; ORNL hosts Molten Salt Reactor Workshop in Oct.

Released: 30-Aug-2018 3:30 PM EDT
Scientists Predict Superelastic Properties in a Group of Iron-Based Superconductors
Ames National Laboratory

A collaboration between scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory and the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main has computationally predicted a number of unique properties in a group of iron-based superconductors, including room-temperature super-elasticity.

Released: 30-Aug-2018 2:05 PM EDT
Fruit flies and electrons: Researchers use physics to predict crowd behavior
Cornell University

Electrons whizzing around each other and humans crammed together at a political rally don’t seem to have much in common, but researchers at Cornell University are connecting the dots. They’ve developed a highly accurate mathematical approach to predict the behavior of crowds of living creatures, using Nobel Prize-winning methods originally developed to study large collections of quantum mechanically interacting electrons. The implications for the study of human behavior are profound, according to the researchers.

Released: 27-Aug-2018 1:45 PM EDT
Qrypt licenses ORNL’s quantum random number generator to fortify encryption methods
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Qrypt, Inc., has exclusively licensed a novel cyber security technology from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, promising a stronger defense against cyberattacks including those posed by quantum computing.

Released: 20-Aug-2018 5:05 PM EDT
Physicists Race to Demystify Einstein’s ‘Spooky’ Science
University of California San Diego

International researchers, including UC San Diego physicists, conducted a “Cosmic Bell” test with polarization-entangled photons to further close the “freedom-of-choice” or “free will” loophole. The experiment tests Bell’s inequality, and results push back to at least 7.8 billion years ago the most recent time by which any causal influences from alternative, non-quantum mechanisms could have exploited the loophole.

Released: 20-Aug-2018 10:40 AM EDT
Researchers Discover Link Between Magnetic Field Strength and Temperature, Improving Thermometry Resolution
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Researchers recently discovered that the strength of the magnetic field required to elicit a particular quantum mechanical process corresponds to the temperature of the material. Based on this finding, scientists can determine a sample’s temperature to a resolution of one cubic micron by measuring the field strength at which this effect occurs. Temperature sensing is integral in most industrial, electronic and chemical processes, so greater spatial resolution could benefit commercial and scientific pursuits. The team reports their findings in AIP Advances.

Released: 7-Aug-2018 3:05 PM EDT
Quantum Computing of an Atomic Nucleus
Department of Energy, Office of Science

The first-ever computation of an atomic nucleus, the deuteron, on a quantum chip demonstrates that even today’s rudimentary quantum computers can solve nuclear physics questions.

Released: 26-Jul-2018 3:05 PM EDT
Scientists Develop Novel Approach to Spontaneous Emission Using Atomic Matter Waves
Stony Brook University

Using a principle called wave-particle duality, the team constructed artificial emitters that spontaneously decay by emitting single atoms, rather than single photons.

Released: 26-Jul-2018 10:10 AM EDT
Quantum Computing: Learning to Speak a Whole New Technology
Department of Energy, Office of Science

Quantum computers work in a fundamentally different way than classical computers. Computer scientists need to start from scratch when creating algorithms for them to run. Three teams from the Department of Energy’s laboratories are developing the foundations for new computer languages and programs.

Released: 25-Jul-2018 10:30 AM EDT
Demon in the Details of Quantum Thermodynamics
Washington University in St. Louis

Researcher in physics in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis are working out a theory of thermodynamics in quantum physics and finding some interesting results, including “negative information.”

Released: 20-Jul-2018 1:05 AM EDT
Ramsay Fellow to Build World’s Fastest Charging Battery
University of Adelaide

The University of Adelaide’s newest Ramsay Fellow, Dr James Quach, will harness the unique properties of quantum mechanics with the aim of building the world’s first quantum battery, a new super battery with the potential for instantaneous charging.

Released: 17-Jul-2018 4:35 PM EDT
Microscopic Trampoline May Help Create Networks of Quantum Computers
University of Colorado Boulder

Scientists have developed a device that uses a small plate to absorb microwave energy and bounce it into laser light—a crucial step for sending quantum signals over long distances.

Released: 17-Jul-2018 12:25 PM EDT
New Agreement Signed to Establish Canada-Germany Quantum Computing and Machine Learning Networks
TRIUMF

Canadian and German research and private sector organizations sign MOU to establish corresponding networks to facilitate national and international collaboration in the use of quantum computing and machine learning tools

Released: 16-Jul-2018 12:05 AM EDT
A Step Closer to Quantum Computers: NUS Researchers Show How to Directly Observe Quantum Spin Effects
National University of Singapore (NUS)

A team led by Associate Professor Yang Hyunsoo from the National University of Singapore Faculty of Engineering has found a practical way to observe and examine the quantum effects of electrons in topological insulators and heavy metals. This could later pave the way for the development of advanced quantum computing components and devices.

5-Jul-2018 10:00 AM EDT
Physicists Uncover Why Nanomaterial Loses Superconductivity
University of Utah

For the first time, physicists discovered that superconducting nanowires made of MoGe alloy undergo quantum phase transitions from a superconducting to a normal metal state in increasing magnetic field at low temperatures. The findings are fully explained by the critical theory.

Released: 3-Jul-2018 3:05 AM EDT
Scientists Pump Up Chances for Quantum Computing
University of Adelaide

University of Adelaide-led research has moved the world one step closer to reliable, high-performance quantum computing.

Released: 21-Jun-2018 1:30 PM EDT
6 Berkeley Lab Researchers Receive DOE Early Career Research Awards
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Six scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Science to receive significant funding for research through its Early Career Research Program.

Released: 20-Jun-2018 3:05 PM EDT
A Bit of Quantum Logic—What Did the Atom Say to the Quantum Dot?
Department of Energy, Office of Science

Let’s talk! Scientists demonstrate coherent coupling between a quantum dot and a donor atom in silicon, vital for moving information inside quantum computers.

Released: 18-Jun-2018 12:05 PM EDT
Carbon Nanotube Optics Poised to Provide Pathway to Optical-Based Quantum Cryptography and Quantum Computing
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Researchers at Los Alamos and partners in France and Germany are exploring the enhanced potential of carbon nanotubes as single-photon emitters for quantum information processing. Their analysis of progress in the field is published in this week’s edition of the journal Nature Materials.



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