MIT Qubit Design Could Speed Quantum Operations While Preserving Data
Insider Brief MIT researchers designed a qubit architecture that simulations suggest could speed quantum operations while preserving stored…
Wild Experiment Reveals Quantum Objects Do Obey Gravity
Quantum mechanics and Einstein’s general relativity explain how the Universe works at the tiniest and largest scales, respectively.…
Quantum Computing Challenges Holding Back Practical Quantum Computers
Insider Brief Quantum computing still faces major hardware, error correction, scaling, software and workforce challenges before it can…
Pulsar Timing Arrays Could Look for Evidence of Dark Matter Stars
Pulsars are incredibly precise cosmic clocks. So precise that we can use them to measure subtle changes in…
Nuclear reactor simulations advance with new quantum transport method
Physicists modeling nuclear systems have long faced a basic computing problem: particles do not move through neat, uniform…
Renowned Expert Elevates UConn Quantum Research
UConn has found its ideal expert to advance its rise as a leader in interdisciplinary quantum research. Internationally…
Relativistic position verification with coherent states
Secure score with coherent states In quantum communication practice, using weak coherent states is much more convenient than…
In an Age of AI, a Physicist Seeks What Endures
But the relief when I admitted to somebody that I didn’t know something was palpable. It was amazing.…
Scientists Find a New Way To Hear the Faint “Ringing” of Black Holes
When two black holes collide and merge, they release gravitational waves. These waves can be detected by sensitive…
A search for one exotic particle uncovered two strange new structures
Physicists have spent decades organizing the growing collection of subatomic particles, yet some discoveries continue to resist easy…
A newly found star circles the Milky Way’s central black hole every 8.7 years and passes it at about 25,000 kilometres a second, more than 8 percent of the speed of light, and the pass is so close that its discoverers say there is a fair chance of measuring the hole’s spin within a decade
A faint point of light showed up 15 milliarcseconds northwest of Sagittarius A* in the spring of 2023,…
Quantum-well metasurface for free-space-accessible enhanced nonlinear polarization
Quantum-mechanical simulation and χ (2) calculation Starting from the general form of the dipole matrix formalism for the…