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Colt Completes Quantum Secured Encryption Trial Across Optical Network

Colt Technology Services (Colt), the global digital infrastructure company, today announced the successful completion of a groundbreaking quantum-secured encryption trial across its optical wave network.

21 Mar 2025

SLAC Researchers Achieve Breakthrough in Electron Beam Technology

Researchers carefully positioned lasers to compress billions of electrons together, creating a beam five times more powerful than ever before.

17 Mar 2025

Harnessing Light and Matter to Advance Quantum Information Science

As part of the Q-NEXT quantum research center, Randall Goldsmith of the University of Wisconsin-Madison studies the interplay of light and matter, harnessing it for quantum information technologies.

24 Feb 2025

Breakthrough Quantum Signal Transmission Achieved with No Downtime

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory joined forces with EPB of Chattanooga and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga to demonstrate the first transmission of an entangled quantum signal using multiple wavelength channels and automatic polarization stabilization over a commercial network with no downtime.

14 Feb 2025

Creating a Stable and Scalable Quantum Register Using Many-Body Physics

Scientists at the University of Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory have used the atoms inside a semiconductor quantum dot to create a functional quantum register in a revolutionary development for quantum technologies.

29 Jan 2025

New Ion Crystal Clock Achieves Unprecedented Accuracy

Recent research published in Physical Review Letters by PTB (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt) details the development of a new indium-ytterbium crystal optical clock, which achieves an accuracy 1000 times better than current cesium clocks.

20 Jan 2025

Protecting Quantum Signals: ORNL Partnership with EPB Tests New Method for Protecting Quantum Networks

14 Jan 2025

Study Compares Throughput in Conventional and Quantum Networks

In quantum networks, the entangled quantum bits per second (ebps) indicates the network's throughput. Scientists have developed theories to estimate the capacity of quantum connections and the maximum achievable ebps.

27 Dec 2024

Quantum Sensors Used to Move Prosthetics

For controlling prosthetics, the body’s signals must be detected to move the artificial limb. At the moment, implanting electrodes is the most common technique but this is invasive and electrodes can deteriorate or move position.

4 Dec 2024

Molten Salt Enables the Growth of Novel Quantum Dot Materials

Researchers from the University of Chicago, University of California Berkeley, Northwestern University, the University of Colorado Boulder, and Argonne National Laboratory have pioneered a technique using molten salt to grow new types of quantum dots, offering an efficient way to create nanocrystals that were previously inaccessible due to high temperature requirements.

28 Oct 2024