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Innsbruck Researchers Create First Bose-Einstein Condensate of Erbium

Francesca Ferlaino’s research team at the University of Innsbruck is the first to successfully create a condensate of the exotic element erbium. The Innsbruck experimental physicists hold the world record in attaining the first Bose-Einstein condensates of different chemical elements.

22 May 2012

New Project Aims to Develop Fullerene-Based Quantum Computer

The Volkswagen Foundation is financing a materials science project, being conducted under the aegis of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, to demonstrate the technical feasibility of a quantum computer on the basis of e...

18 May 2012

Advanced Spectroscopy Confirms Quantum Predictions for Behaviour of Water Molecules

Water is the most abundant and one of the most frequently studied substances on Earth, yet its geometry at the molecular level - the simple two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom, and how they interact with other molecules, including other water - has remained somewhat of a mystery to chemists.

18 May 2012

Error-Correction Breakthrough Represents Significant Step Towards Powerful Quantum Computing

Hector Bombin, Helmut Kraztgraber and Miguel Angel Martin-Delgado, researchers from the QUITEMAD Scientific Consortium (Technologies Program R & D, funded by the Community of Madrid) together with an international gr...

14 May 2012

New Paper From CQT Finds Phases of Matter With Differing Computational Power

A study has turned upside down a typical way of looking at the connection between physics and information in quantum systems — with results that could lead to new insight into quantum computation.

9 May 2012

First Light: NIST Researchers Develop New Way to Generate Superluminal Pulses

Researchers at NIST have developed a novel way of producing light pulses that are "superluminal"—in some sense they travel faster than the speed of light. The new method could be used to improve the timing of communications signals and to investigate the propagation of quantum correlations.

3 May 2012

Researchers invent scheme to extract quantum computing power from noise

Researchers have discovered that a process known as spontaneous emission that was previously seen as creating unhelpful noise in quantum data can be harnessed not only to protect the data, but even to compute.

1 May 2012

Semiconductor Chip Produces Entangled Photons for Quantum Computing

In the age of high-speed computing, the photon is king. However, producing the finely tuned particles of light is a complex and time-consuming process, until now. Thanks to the work by a team of engineers led by Profe...

1 May 2012

Researchers from the University of Zurich discover new particle at CERN

Physicists from the University of Zurich have discovered a previously unknown particle composed of three quarks in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator. A new baryon could thus be detected for the first t...

27 Apr 2012

Superiority of a Dynamic Quantum Simulator Demonstrated

An international collaboration demonstrates the superiority of a dynamical quantum simulator over state-of-the-art numerical calculations.

22 Mar 2012

Physicists Simulate Strongly Correlated Fermions

Combining known factors in a new way, theoretical physicists Boris Svistunov and Nikolai Prokof’ev at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with three alumni of their group, have solved an intractable 50-year-old problem: How to simulate strongly interacting quantum systems to allow accurate predictions of their properties.

18 Mar 2012