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It’s Good to Talk: Scientists Report Quantum Networking Breakthrough

Scientists at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh have solved one of the fundamental problems facing quantum networking.

23 Jan 2024

Creating Quantum Superposition States with Optically Levitated Nanoparticles

The recipe for an innovative experiment put forth by theoretical physicists in a recent paper published in Physical Review Letters is to roll through a curved ramp while moving quickly and avoiding light.

11 Jan 2024

Unraveling the Secrets of Shared Quantum Entanglement

In partnership with String Theorist Robert de Mello Koch of Huzhou University in China (formerly from Wits University), researchers from the Structured Light Laboratory (School of Physics) at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, under the direction of Professor Andrew Forbes, have shown for the first time that it is possible to perturb pairs of spatially separated yet interconnected quantum entangled particles without changing particles shared properties.

10 Jan 2024

Non-Chiral Material Generates Chiral Structures in Unexpected Turn

Research reveals that nonchiral systems can give rise to chiral structures with mirror-image configurations, opening up new possibilities for the engineering of these materials.

10 Jan 2024

Teleporting Complex "Patterns" With Quantum Entanglement

Nature Communications today published research by an international team from Wits and ICFO- The Institute of Photonic Sciences, which demonstrates the teleportation-like transport of "patterns" of light - this is the first approach that can transport images across a network without physically sending the image, and a crucial step towards realising a quantum network for high-dimensional entangled states.

19 Dec 2023

NPL Breakthrough Opens the Way to Measure Performance of Next-Gen Quantum Communication Networks

Scientists at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) have developed a new technique to test and measure the performance of next-generation optical fibre interconnects for quantum communication networks.

14 Dec 2023

Fractal Photonic AFTIs: A New Platform for High-Capacity Quantum Information Transmission

Anomalous Floquet topological insulator (AFTI) is a periodically driven topological insulator (TI), which has nonzero winding numbers to support topological edge modes, though its standard topological invariants like Chern numbers are zero.

8 Dec 2023

New Observations Confirm Galactic Winds as Key Regulators of Star Formation

The flow of matter between galaxies and their surroundings is made possible by galactic winds.

7 Dec 2023

Dusty Star-Forming Galaxy Emerges From Cosmic Veil

Initially emerging as a luminous blob through ground-based telescopes, this enigmatic entity vanished entirely in Hubble Space Telescope images. However, it has recently resurfaced as a faint yet discernible galaxy in a capture from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

4 Dec 2023

New Project Seeks to Rapidly Generate Muons Using High-Power Lasers

Today we can see inside seemingly impossible places-;nuclear reactors, volcanoes, tsunamis, hurricanes, and Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza-;thanks to muon imaging.

30 Oct 2023