FSU Receives $2.1 Million for Quantum Communication Testbed
Insider Brief Florida State University will establish a campus-scale quantum communication testbed with $2.1 million in federal Community…
Quantum memory stores single photons for record time in major leap towards a quantum internet
Researchers stored telecom-heralded single photons for up to 180 microseconds in a solid-state quantum memory while preserving nonclassical…
China tests pencil-sized quantum magnetometer on subway
Chinese researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China successfully tested a handheld quantum magnetometer on…
Space Lasers Are About to Get Their First Real Test Generating Energy
Google, SpaceX, and a host of startups are all planning to build data centers in space. But for…
Researchers Identify Limits on Quantum Battery Energy And Power Stability
Insider Brief Researchers identified fundamental limits on quantum-battery reliability, showing how charging strategies can balance high power with…
Cosmic Lockdown: How The Environment Can Isolate Quantum Fields
Insider Brief Researchers used a simplified cosmological model to show that interactions with surrounding fields can suppress quantum…
Two experiments find quarter-electron charge in a quantum Hall state
An electron cannot be split into smaller charged pieces. Yet under extreme conditions, electrons can behave collectively and…
Tiny Diamond Beams Could Unlock More Powerful Quantum Networks
Conceptual illustration of an integrated quantum photonic circuit in which diamond nanobeams containing quantum emitters and spins are…
A 20-foot vacuum chamber in Albuquerque takes 26 million amps from 2,160 capacitors in about 100 billionths of a second, around 200 times a year, each shot shaking the ground like a small earthquake, and the lab that runs it wants one 10 times bigger
KeysQuestions4Explore4 Sandia’s Z Machine is the most powerful X-ray source on Earth, and the lab wants to build…
Scientists use tiny light beam to rewrite magnetic memory at high speed
For decades, magnetic data storage has depended on the general idea of using a magnetic field to flip…
Tiny ghost particles could decide whether a dying star becomes a black hole
Tiny particles called neutrinos could help determine whether a dying massive star explodes as a supernova or collapses…
The Disconnection of the Large Hadron Collider Has Begun
CERN Director-General, Mark Thomson, visited the LHC tunnel to mark the start of the dismantling of the accelerator…