RSS Channels IndexTurning on Frustration: 16 Atomic Ions Simulate a Quantum Antiferromagnet
This week’s issue of Science Magazine features new results from the research group of Christopher Monroe at the JQI, where they explored how to frustrate a quantum magnet comprised of sixteen atomic ions – to date the largest ensemble of qubits...
5/3/2013 9:45 AM EDT
Quantum Dot Commands Light
JQI scientists, led by Professor Edo Waks, have performed an ultrafast logic gate on a photon, using a semiconductor quantum dot.
4/1/2013 8:00 AM EDT
An Ideal Material: Solving a Mystery Leads to the Discovery of a True Topological Insulator
Experimentalists have recently confirmed that SmB6 is the first true 3D topological insulator—as originally predicted by JQI/CMTC☨ theorists in 2010.
1/31/2013 4:30 PM EST
A One-Way Street for Light
An optical diode made with silicon technology can be used for quantum information. Researchers from JQI and the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) propose using ring resonators to construct a micro-optical diode. The...
3/22/2012 12:25 PM EDT
Topological Matter in Optical Lattices
Researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute* have shown that an optical lattice system exhibits a never-before-seen quantum state called a topological semimetal. The semimetal, which debuts in the Advance Online Publication for the journal Nature...
11/28/2011 11:00 AM EST
Miniaturizing Delay Lines: Quantum Spin Hall Effect for Light
Scientists are proposing a novel method for forcing photons to act like electrons. Two researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI)*, Mohammad Hafezi and Jacob M. Taylor, and two researchers at Harvard, Eugene A. Demler and Mikhail D. Lukin,...
8/22/2011 8:00 AM EDT
Searching for Spin Liquids
A new study proves that a much-sought exotic quantum state of matter can exist. Researchers uncover the existence of a spin liquid in a frustrated system.
8/12/2011 2:30 PM EDT
Understanding Quantum Magnetism, Atom by Atom
Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) researchers have observed the onset of a quantum phase transition to a quantum ferromagnet using a nine ion crystal, in an atom-by-atom approach to quantum simulations of magnetism.
7/6/2011 2:30 PM EDT