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New Grant to Extend Quantum Applications to Harder Problems and Longer Distances

Professor John Rarity and Dr Ruth Oulton from the University of Bristol’s Centre for Quantum Photonics have received a Future and Emerging Technologies grant worth €2 million from the European Commission and a CHIST-ERA award worth €1.1 million from national funding agencies in Europe.

26 Apr 2012

New Technique to Create Single Photons for Optical Quantum Information Processing

Georgia Tech professor Alex Kuzmich and graduate student Yaroslav Dudin have devised a new faster and more-efficient technique based on a phenomenon called Rydberg blockade to generate single photons that can be utilized to explore the disorder and dynamics in specific physical systems and in optical quantum information processing.

21 Apr 2012

Researchers Try to Solve Equations for Turbulence on Quantum Computers

A team of researchers led by Professor Peyman Givi from the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) is involved in the development of quantum-computing algorithms to simulate turbulent combustion in a better way for aerospace applications.

20 Apr 2012

Phase-Slip Qubit Opens Up New Opportunities in Superconducting Electronics

A team of researchers from the NEC Smart Energy Research Laboratories and RIKEN Advanced Science Institute has experimentally demonstrated the existence of a subtle phenomenon known as coherent quantum phase slip (CQPS) for the first time using ‘phase-slip qubit,’ a new kind of qubit developed by the team.

20 Apr 2012

Study Provides New Insights into Quantum Levitation

Over 50 years ago, Hendrik Casimir, a Dutch theoretical physicist, determined that two parallel mirrors would attract each other when placed in a vacuum. The energy of virtual particles that flit into and out of existence generates this enigmatic force, as explained by quantum theory.

20 Apr 2012

MPQ Physicists Bring New Approach to Quantum Communication

A research team at MPQ has devised an initial elementary quantum network, which utilizes interfaces between single atoms and photons.

16 Apr 2012

Cambridge Researchers Demonstrate Light-Controlled Quantum Tunneling

Cambridge-based Cavendish Laboratory researchers made efforts to drive electrons across a classically impenetrable barrier, using light.

7 Apr 2012

New Method Improves Qubit Transportation

A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore’s Centre for Computational Science and Engineering and Zhejiang University has developed a new technique to control the interaction between electrons and vibrations on electronic transport.

6 Apr 2012

Researchers Design New Protocol to Control Quantum Information

A team of researchers from different institutions has devised a protocol that paves the way to perform highly accurate quantum computations at a larger scale.

6 Apr 2012

Researchers Develop New Quantum Encryption Technique

A research team headed by Professor Hoi-Kwong Lo from the University of Toronto has discovered a new quantum encryption technique to provide protection against the most advanced hackers.

2 Apr 2012