1

2

Top Headlines

Quantum Steering for More Precise Measurements

Apr. 23, 2021 — Quantum systems consisting of several particles can be used to measure magnetic or electric fields more precisely. A young physicist has now proposed a new scheme for such measurements that uses a ...

Materials Advances Are Key to Development of Quantum Hardware

Apr. 19, 2021 — A new article argues that the ability to move forward on developing useful quantum computers requires new major advances in materials science, engineering and fabrication. The authors call for new ...

Network illustration, | (c) (c) issaronow / Adobe

Entanglement-Based Quantum Network

Apr. 15, 2021 — A team of researchers reports realization of a multi-node quantum network, connecting three quantum processors. In addition, they achieved a proof-of-principle demonstration ...

A Breakthrough That Enables Practical Semiconductor Spintronics

Apr. 8, 2021 — It may be possible in the future to use information technology where electron spin is used to store, process and transfer information in quantum computers. It has long been the goal of scientists to ...

Latest Headlines

updated 12:04pm EDT

Silicon Could Be a Photonics Game-Changer

Apr. 27, 2021 — New research has shown that silicon could be one of the most powerful materials for photonic informational manipulation - opening up new possibilities for the production of lasers and ...

New 2D Superconductor Forms at Higher Temperatures

Apr. 27, 2021 — Researchers have discovered a new way to generate 2D superconductivity at an interface of an insulating oxide material, at high transition ...

New Two-Dimensional Material

Apr. 27, 2021 — An international team has discovered a previously unknown two-dimensional material by using modern high-pressure technology. The new material, beryllonitrene, consists of regularly arranged nitrogen ...

Detailed Look at Intriguing Property of Chiral Materials

Apr. 21, 2021 — A new study is advancing scientists' understanding of magneto-chiral dichroism. The research focuses on light-matter interactions in chiral materials under a magnetic ...

Combining Light, Superconductors Could Boost AI Capabilities

Apr. 20, 2021 — As artificial intelligence has attracted interest, researchers are focused on understanding how the brain accomplishes cognition so they can construct systems with general intelligence comparable to ...

Boosting Fiber Optics Communications With Advanced Quantum-Enhanced Receiver

Apr. 20, 2021 — Fiber optic technology is the holy grail of high-speed, long-distance telecommunications. Still, with the continuing exponential growth of internet ...

New Pulsed Magnet Reveals a New State of Matter in Kondo Insulator

Apr. 20, 2021 — A recent series of experiments leveraged some of the nation's highest-powered nondestructive magnets to reveal an exotic new phase of matter at high magnetic ...

Water and Quantum Magnets Share Critical Physics

Apr. 14, 2021 — Water can freeze from liquid to solid ice or boil into a gas. In the kitchen these 'phase transitions' aren't smooth, but their discontinuous nature is smoothed out at high pressure. An international ...

Physics: Resources to Look for Cracks in the Standard Model

Apr. 15, 2021 — Researchers have used Europe's most powerful high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure to run new and more precise lattice quantum chromodynamics (lattice QCD) calculations of muons in a ...

Experiments Cast Doubts on the Existence of Quantum Spin Liquids

Apr. 16, 2021 — A quantum spin liquid is a state of matter in which interacting quantum spins do not align even at lowest temperatures, but remain disordered. Research on this state has been going on for almost 50 ...