Editor’s note: This is part of a series called “The Day Tomorrow Began,” which explores the history of breakthroughs at UChicago. Learn more here. The quantum internet is a network of quantum ...
Nov. 4, 2024 — Nanoscale 3D transistors made from ultrathin semiconductor materials can operate more efficiently than silicon-based devices, leveraging quantum mechanical properties to ...
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In the search for the most scalable hardware to use for quantum computers, qubits made of individual atoms are having a breakout moment. Teleporting people through space is still science fiction. But ...
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An experimental setup built at the Technion Faculty of Physics demonstrates the transfer of atoms from one place to another through quantum tunneling between optical tweezers. Led by Prof.
Chinese researchers say they have become the first people to use a quantum computer to compromise the type of password-based security system widely employed in critical industries such as defense.
Zapata Computing, which spun out of a quantum software research project at Harvard and listed on the stock market in April, is going out of business. The closure comes after the Boston company’s ...
Using spin-5/2 nuclei of 173 Yb atoms trapped in an optical lattice, a Schrödinger-cat state persists for a coherence time of 1.4 × 10 3 s. In measuring external magnetic fields, the cat ...
Quantum theory describes events that take place on extremely short time scales. In the past, such events were regarded as 'momentary' or 'instantaneous': An electron orbits the nucleus of an atom ...