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UK Business Leaders Predict Significant Quantum Disruption by 2030

EY’s 2022 Quantum Readiness survey, produced in collaboration with the National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC), has found that 81% of senior UK executives expect quantum computing to play a significant role in their industry by 2030.

15 Jun 2022

Scientists Devise Identical Photons From Widely-Dispersed Sources

Identical light particles (photons) are critical for several quantum-physics-based technologies.

14 Jun 2022

Creating Matter Waves that can Stay on Forever

Imagining our everyday life without lasers is difficult. We use lasers in printers, CD players, pointers, measuring devices, and so on. What makes lasers so special is that they use coherent waves of light: all the light inside a laser vibrates completely in sync.

14 Jun 2022

UQ Discovery Paves the Way for Faster Computers, Longer-lasting Batteries

University of Queensland scientists have cracked a problem that’s frustrated chemists and physicists for years, potentially leading to a new age of powerful, efficient, and environmentally friendly technologies.

9 Jun 2022

Physicists Find New Way to Operate Mass Manufacturable Photonic Sensors at the Quantum Limit

A Bristol-led team of physicists has found a way to operate mass manufacturable photonic sensors at the quantum limit. This breakthrough paves the way for practical applications such as monitoring greenhouse gases and cancer detection.

8 Jun 2022

Astronomers Discover a New Type of Neutron Star in Strange Galactic Graveyard

An international team led by a physicist from the University of Sydney has identified a unique radio signal generating neutron star that rotates incredibly slowly, completing one rotation every 76 seconds.

31 May 2022

Novel Intelligent Sensor Simultaneously Detects the Intensity, Polarization and Wavelength of Light

An intelligent sensor, the size of about 1/1000 of the cross-section of a human hair, has been developed that can detect the polarization, intensity, and wavelength of light simultaneously using quantum properties of electrons.

17 May 2022

Study Provides Experimental Evidence of the Features of Superfluid Helium

Silicon nanoparticles can become trapped within the vortices that develop inside superfluid helium, according to researchers from Osaka University’s Graduate School of Engineering Science.

5 May 2022

CSIRO Telescope Dons ‘Sunglasses’ to Find Brightest Ever Pulsar

An international research team, including scientists at Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, have used a new observation technique to discover the brightest extragalactic pulsar known, and it could even be the most luminous one ever found.

3 May 2022