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Efforts Ongoing to Enhance Qubits to Optimize Quantum Computers

For many years, scientists have speculated that someday, quantum computers will carry out challenging tasks like simulating complex chemical systems, which cannot be performed by traditional computers.

19 Apr 2019

Improving Quantum Computers

For decades, experts have predicted that quantum computers will someday perform difficult tasks, such as simulating complex chemical systems, that can’t be done by conventional computers.

19 Apr 2019

TESS Discovers its First Earth-Sized Planet

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, TESS, has discovered its first Earth-sized exoplanet. The planet, named HD 21749c, is the smallest world outside our solar system that TESS has identified yet.

17 Apr 2019

Quantum Localization Bounds Trotter Faults in Digital Quantum Simulation

Quantum computers exhibit the potential to solve specific computational issues exponentially faster than any classical machine.

15 Apr 2019

Global Volunteer Computing Effort to Unlock Secrets in Gravitational Waves from Black Holes Collision

Scientists who hope to gain a better understanding of data from the detection of gravitational waves produced by the collision of binary black holes are seeking help from the general public.

15 Apr 2019

Researchers Develop New Algorithm for Enhancing Problem-Solving Ability of D-Wave Quantum Annealer

A research reported in the Scientific Reports journal describes an algorithm that improves the potential of a Canadian-designed quantum computer to find the ideal solution for complex problems in a more efficient manner.

11 Apr 2019

Working Together as a “Virtual Telescope,” Observatories Around the World Produce First Direct Images of a Black Hole

An international team of over 200 astronomers, including scientists from MIT’s Haystack Observatory, has captured the first direct images of a black hole.

11 Apr 2019

Skyrmion Bags Could Allow More Denser Packing of Information in Skyrmion Systems

Using an emerging science known as skyrmionics, researchers from the Universities of Birmingham, Bristol, and Colorado Boulder have taken one step closer to creating futuristic data storage and processing devices.

2 Apr 2019

Researchers Closer to Realizing Distributed Quantum Computers

A research team from Waseda University, the Japan Science and Technology Agency, and the University of Auckland created an integrated, all-fiber coupled-cavities quantum electrodynamics (QED) system, wherein a meter-long portion of conventional optical fiber flawlessly and coherently links two nanofiber cavity-QED systems.

1 Apr 2019