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Newswise: MTSU Quantum takes new leap with two NSF grants totaling $1M-plus
Released: 20-Feb-2024 3:05 PM EST
MTSU Quantum takes new leap with two NSF grants totaling $1M-plus
Middle Tennessee State University

Middle Tennessee State University’s Quantum Science Initiative is taking more giant leaps with two new grants — totaling more than $1 million — from the National Science Foundation to expand research, education and inclusivity in quantum education.

   
Newswise: How the Quantum World Can Help Scientists Engineer Biology
Released: 9-Feb-2024 2:05 PM EST
How the Quantum World Can Help Scientists Engineer Biology
Department of Energy, Office of Science

By studying how CRISPR-Cas works, scientists can predict and design where these tools modify DNA.

Released: 8-Feb-2024 5:05 PM EST
Technique could improve the sensitivity of quantum sensing devices
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

In quantum sensing, atomic-scale quantum systems are used to measure electromagnetic fields, as well as properties like rotation, acceleration, and distance, far more precisely than classical sensors can.

Newswise: Laser Manufacturing of Spatial Resolution Approaching Quantum Limit
Released: 8-Feb-2024 4:05 AM EST
Laser Manufacturing of Spatial Resolution Approaching Quantum Limit
Chinese Academy of Sciences

Since the advent of femtosecond laser in the early 1990s, ultrafast laser processing has been considered a promising nanofabrication approach, which is unique in manufacturing hard-processing materials and realizing fine three-dimensional structures.

Newswise: High fidelity spatial mode quantum gates enabled by diffractive neural networks
Released: 7-Feb-2024 9:00 AM EST
High fidelity spatial mode quantum gates enabled by diffractive neural networks
Chinese Academy of Sciences

Reliable quantum gates are the fundamental component of quantum information processing. However, achieving high-dimensional unitary transformations in a scalable and compact manner with ultrahigh fidelities remains a great challenge.

Newswise: Research Team Takes a Fundamental Step Toward a Functioning Quantum Internet
Released: 6-Feb-2024 1:05 PM EST
Research Team Takes a Fundamental Step Toward a Functioning Quantum Internet
Stony Brook University

A team of Stony Brook University physicists and their collaborators have taken a significant step toward the building of a quantum internet testbed by demonstrating a foundational quantum network measurement that employs room-temperature quantum memories.

Newswise: Breaking boundaries in quantum photonics:
Groundbreaking nanocavities unlock new frontiers in light confinement
5-Feb-2024 9:30 AM EST
Breaking boundaries in quantum photonics: Groundbreaking nanocavities unlock new frontiers in light confinement
Bar-Ilan University

In a significant leap forward for quantum nanophotonics, a team of European and Israeli physicists, introduces a new type of polaritonic cavities and redefines the limits of light confinement. This pioneering work, detailed in a study published today in Nature Materials, demonstrates an unconventional method to confine photons, overcoming the traditional limitations in nanophotonics.

Newswise:Video Embedded new-ion-cooling-technique-could-simplify-quantum-computing-devices
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Released: 5-Feb-2024 8:05 PM EST
New Ion Cooling Technique Could Simplify Quantum Computing Devices
Georgia Institute of Technology

A new cooling technique that utilizes a single species of trapped ion for both computing and cooling could simplify the use of quantum charge-coupled devices (QCCDs), potentially moving quantum computing closer to practical applications.

Released: 5-Feb-2024 10:05 AM EST
Direct View of Tantalum Oxidation that Impedes Qubit Coherence
Brookhaven National Laboratory

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and DOE's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have used a combination of scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) and computational modeling to get a closer look and deeper understanding of tantalum oxide.

Released: 31-Jan-2024 11:05 AM EST
UC Irvine scientists make breakthrough in quantum materials research
University of California, Irvine

Irvine, Calif., Jan. 31, 2024 — Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and Los Alamos National Laboratory, publishing in the latest issue of Nature Communications, describe the discovery of a new method that transforms everyday materials like glass into materials scientists can use to make quantum computers.

Newswise: Meet Edward Schmitt, facilities engineer
Released: 30-Jan-2024 11:50 AM EST
Meet Edward Schmitt, facilities engineer
Argonne National Laboratory

Edward Schmitt is supporting Argonne’s efforts at the lab’s quantum materials foundry.

Released: 30-Jan-2024 11:05 AM EST
Researchers Craft New Way to Make High-Temperature Superconductors – With a Twist
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

An international team that includes Rutgers University–New Brunswick scientists has developed a new method to make and manipulate a widely studied class of high-temperature superconductors.

Released: 29-Jan-2024 4:05 PM EST
Rice scientists pull off quantum coup
Rice University

Rice University scientists have discovered a first-of-its-kind material, a 3D crystalline metal in which quantum correlations and the geometry of the crystal structure combine to frustrate the movement of electrons and lock them in place.

Newswise: Antihydrogen Falls Downward!
Released: 29-Jan-2024 4:05 PM EST
Antihydrogen Falls Downward!
Department of Energy, Office of Science

Scientists have indirect evidence that antimatter falls the same way as matter.

Newswise: Martinez-Rincon Elected Vice Chair of QED-C Committee
Released: 29-Jan-2024 11:05 AM EST
Martinez-Rincon Elected Vice Chair of QED-C Committee
Brookhaven National Laboratory

Julian Martinez-Rincon, a quantum scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, has been elected vice chair of the Standards & Performance Metrics Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) of the Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C).

Newswise: Quantum material-based spintronic devices operate at ultra-low power
Released: 29-Jan-2024 12:00 AM EST
Quantum material-based spintronic devices operate at ultra-low power
National Research Council of Science and Technology

Dr. Jun Woo Choi of the Center for Spintroncs Research at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) have announced the results of a collaborative study showing that ultra-low-power memory can be fabricated from quantum materials.

Newswise: EPB, ORNL announce plans for research collaborative focused on energy resilience, quantum technology
Released: 26-Jan-2024 4:05 PM EST
EPB, ORNL announce plans for research collaborative focused on energy resilience, quantum technology
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Building on $180 million in joint energy-related research, EPB and Oak Ridge National Laboratory marked 10 years of collaboration Friday with the announcement of the new Collaborative for Energy Resilience and Quantum Science, or CERQS.

Newswise: Revealed: Quantum Entanglement among Quarks
Released: 26-Jan-2024 2:05 PM EST
Revealed: Quantum Entanglement among Quarks
Department of Energy, Office of Science

Collisions of high energy particles produce “jets” of quarks, anti-quarks, or gluons. The quarks can’t be directly detected, but simulations indicate that the jets modify the quantum vacuum and that the produced quarks retain entanglement.

Newswise: Researcher trains next-gen AI for chemicals industry to take a quantum leap forward
Released: 25-Jan-2024 11:00 AM EST
Researcher trains next-gen AI for chemicals industry to take a quantum leap forward
West Virginia University

A West Virginia University engineer is creating powerful, unconventional artificial intelligence tools that can reimagine the sustainability of chemical manufacturing.



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