Physicists Built Quantum States So Strange They Only Existed In Theory, Until Now
Reconstructed Wigner function of a superposition of two trisqueezed states. Its sixfold rotational symmetry and regions of Wigner…
World’s slowest experiment: inside century-long wait for a single drop
Some science experiments last a few minutes. Some take years. And then there is the Pitch Drop Experiment,…
Orbiting Stars Give Clues to a Quiescent Black Hole’s Mass
How do you measure the mass of a dormant black hole in the early Universe? That’s a question…
Realization of fermionic Laughlin state on a quantum processor
The model We realize the topologically ordered Laughlin state on a quantum processor through constructing an HVA for…
New Physics Is Always Tentative; Here’s Why
In proposing new theories in physics, as in other fields, a scientist needs to maintain a posture of…
Magnetic Fields Help Binary Stars Form and Black Holes Merge
Stars form by direct collapse of gas in giant molecular clouds, creating molecular cloud cores. It’s not a…
Quantum Sensor Advance Could Transform Army Battlefield Signal Detection
Insider Brief Scientists at the U.S. Army DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory demonstrated the first quantum sensor capable of…
QTREX Awarded Government Grant to Advance Native RF Dielectric Material for Quantum Computing
Insider Brief QTREX has received an approximately $1 million grant from the Israel Innovation Authority to develop a…
IQM Announces Novel Quantum Error Correction Approach Toward Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing
Insider Brief IQM has developed a new family of quantum error-correcting codes called barbell codes, designed for its…
Scientists think they solved the mystery of the Amaterasu particle
An ultraheavy particle may help explain one of the most puzzling mysteries in modern astrophysics: the origin of…
Chromatix: a differentiable, GPU-accelerated wave-optics library
Design and implementation The design of Chromatix is strongly inspired by current deep learning frameworks. Here we detail…
WiMi Explores Quantum Algorithms for Multi-Dimensional Data Pooling
Insider Brief WiMi is exploring a multi-dimensional pooling optimization approach that combines variational quantum algorithms, the Quantum Haar…