Quantum Physics News

March 9, 2025

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Sneaky Clocks: Uncovering Einstein's Relativity in an Interacting Atomic Playground

Mar. 5, 2025 — Researchers have explored the interplay between gravitational effects and quantum interactions in optical atomic clocks, revealing more about quantum entanglement in precision ...

Breakthrough in High-Sensitivity Quantum Sensors With Diamond Heteroepitaxy

Feb. 25, 2025 — Heteroepitaxial growth technology has made it possible to create larger diamond substrates, opening new opportunities for industrial-scale production of diamond quantum sensors. A research team has successfully fabricated large-area (111)-orientated ...

Single-Qubit Sensing Puts New Spin on Quantum Materials Discovery

Mar. 5, 2025 — Working at nanoscale dimensions, billionths of a meter in size, a team of scientists revealed a new way to measure high-speed fluctuations in magnetic materials. Knowledge obtained by these new measurements could be used to advance technologies ...

The Quest for Room-Temperature Superconductors

Mar. 5, 2025 — Theoretical physicists reveal that room-temperature superconductivity is possible within the laws of our Universe, linked to fundamental constants like electron mass and Planck constant. Discovery could revolutionize energy, quantum computing, and ...

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Neural Network Deciphers Gravitational Waves from Merging Neutron Stars in a Second

Mar. 5, 2025 — Binary neutron star mergers emit gravitational waves followed by light. To fully exploit these observations and avoid missing key signals, speed is ...

Cold Atoms on a Chip

Mar. 4, 2025 — Researchers are working to move cold atom quantum experiments and applications from the laboratory tabletop to chip-based ...

Scientists Unravel the Spiraling Secrets of Magnetic Materials for Next-Generation Electronics

Mar. 4, 2025 — Engineers have developed a new computational approach to accurately model and predict the properties of a class of magnetic molecules called chiral ...

Unraveling the Origin of Extremely Bright Quantum Emitters

Feb. 27, 2025 — A multi-institutional research team has clarified the energy levels of color centers at the SiO2/SiC interface, paving the way toward the development of scalable quantum technologies that use them as ...

Quantum Interference in Molecule-Surface Collisions

Feb. 27, 2025 — Scientists have revealed how quantum interference and symmetry dictate molecular behavior in collisions with gold surfaces, offering new insights into molecular interactions. The findings can have ...

Materials Incorporated Into Quantum Qubit Platform

Feb. 25, 2025 — Researchers detail advances in the measurement of quantum devices that will be needed to realize a topological quantum computer. In an announcement, the team describes the operation of a device that ...

New Ocelot Chip Makes Strides in Quantum Computing

Feb. 27, 2025 — Scientists demonstrate a new quantum chip architecture for suppressing errors using a type of qubit known as a cat ...

Powering the Future -- Ultrathin Films Are Revolutionizing Electrical Conductivity

Feb. 28, 2025 — A multi-institutional research team has engineered a way to preserve the electrical properties of materials as they are shrunk to the nanoscale. The ...

New Low-Cost Challenger to Quantum Computer: Ising Machine

Feb. 26, 2025 — A low-energy challenger to the quantum computer also works at room temperature. The researchers have shown that information can be transmitted using magnetic wave motion in complex ...

Time Interfaces: The Gateway to Four-Dimensional Quantum Optics

Feb. 26, 2025 — A new study explores the behavior of photons, the elementary particles of light, as they encounter boundaries where material properties change rapidly over time. This research uncovers remarkable ...

Multiplexing Entanglement in a Quantum Network

Feb. 26, 2025 — Researchers use rare-earth ions to achieve the first-ever demonstration of entanglement multiplexing between individual memory qubits in a quantum ...

Mesoporous Silicon: Semiconductor With New Talents

Feb. 25, 2025 — Silicon is the best-known semiconductor material. However, controlled nanostructuring drastically alters the material's properties. Using a specially developed etching apparatus, a team has now ...

A Completely New Type of Microscopy Based on Quantum Sensors

Feb. 25, 2025 — Researchers have invented an entirely new field of microscopy -- nuclear spin microscopy. The team can visualize magnetic signals of nuclear magnetic resonance with a microscope. Quantum sensors ...

Illuminating the Proton's Inner Workings

Feb. 21, 2025 — Scientists have now mapped the forces acting inside a proton, showing in unprecedented detail how quarks -- the tiny particles within -- respond when hit by high-energy photons. The international ...

Topological Quantum Processor Marks Breakthrough in Computing

Feb. 20, 2025 — In a leap forward for quantum computing, physicists unveiled an eight-qubit topological quantum processor, the first of its kind. The chip, built as a proof-of-concept for the scientists' ...

Breakthrough Study Challenges Long-Held Beliefs About the Shape of Atomic Nuclei

Feb. 20, 2025 — An international research collaboration has overturned the long-standing belief that the atomic nucleus of lead-208 is perfectly spherical. The discovery challenges fundamental assumptions about ...

A New Way to Observe Electrons in Motion

Feb. 19, 2025 — Electrons are incredibly fast. Because of their ultrafast motions, directly observing their behavior has been challenging. Now researchers have suggested a new method to make visualizing electron ...

Magnetic Semiconductor Preserves 2D Quantum Properties in 3D Material

Feb. 19, 2025 — Physicists have developed a novel approach to maintain special quantum characteristics, even in 3D materials, with potential applications in optical systems and advanced ...

Magnetic Switch Traps Quantum Information Carriers in One Dimension

Feb. 19, 2025 — A quantum 'miracle material' could support magnetic switching, a team of researchers has ...

Researchers Record Ultrafast Chorus Dance of Electrons on Super-Small Particle

Feb. 18, 2025 — It may be the smallest, shortest chorus dance ever recorded. An international team of researchers observed how electrons, excited by ultrafast light pulses, danced in unison around a particle less ...

New Nanoscale Technique Unlocks Quantum Material Secrets

Feb. 18, 2025 — Using a novel surface-sensitive spectroscopy method, scientists explored atomic vibrations in crystalline material surfaces near interfaces. The findings illuminate quantum behaviors that play ...

Light-Powered Breakthrough Enables Precision Tuning of Quantum Dots

Feb. 18, 2025 — Researchers have demonstrated a new technique that uses light to tune the optical properties of quantum dots -- making the process faster, more energy-efficient and environmentally sustainable -- ...

Terabytes of Data in a Millimeter Crystal

Feb. 14, 2025 — Researchers have explored a 'quantum-inspired' technique to make the 'ones' and 'zeroes' for classical computer memory applications out of crystal defects, each the size ...

Physicists Uncover Evidence of Two Arrows of Time Emerging from the Quantum Realm

Feb. 13, 2025 — What if time is not as fixed as we thought? Imagine that instead of flowing in one direction -- from past to future -- time could flow forward or backward due to processes taking place at the quantum ...

Mirror, Mirror Trap the Light: Measuring Invisible Light Waves Via Electro-Optic Cavities

Feb. 12, 2025 — Researchers have developed a novel experimental platform to measure the electric fields of light trapped between two mirrors with a sub-cycle precision. These electro-optic Fabry-Perot resonators ...

First Detection of an Ultra-High-Energy Neutrino

Feb. 12, 2025 — Scientists have just detected a neutrino that is thirty times more energetic than any previously detected anywhere in the world. This exceptional discovery opens up new perspectives for understanding ...

When Qubits Learn the Language of Fiberoptics

Feb. 11, 2025 — Qubits -- the fundamental units of quantum information -- drive entire tech sectors. Among them, superconducting qubits could be instrumental in building a large-scale quantum computer, but they rely ...

From Photons to Protons: Team Makes Breakthrough in High-Energy Particle Detection

Feb. 11, 2025 — Researchers have discovered that superconducting nanowire photon detectors can also be used as highly accurate particle detectors, and they have found the optimal nanowire size for high detection ...

A Symphony in Quantum

Feb. 10, 2025 — Entanglement -- linking distant particles or groups of particles so that one cannot be described without the other -- is at the core of the quantum revolution changing the face of modern technology. ...

Breakthrough in Opto-Magnetic Technology: 5-Fold Increase in Torque Efficiency

Feb. 6, 2025 — Researchers created platinum-mixed metallic magnetic nanofilms that are 5x more efficient -- the ultimate energy-saving ...