Recently, researchers at UChicago Pritzker Molecular Engineering, supported by a $1.5 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, have discovered an entirely new method of fabricating superconductors. In this study, the team did not employ traditional chemical methods but instead utilized photonic crystal cavities to create superconductors. This approach sensitively controls superconductivity by changing the physical environment rather than the chemical environment, thus enabling the design of superconductors without changing their chemical composition.

The UBC’s Blusson Quantum Matter Institute recently held the opening ceremony for its Quantum Materials Electron Microscopy Centre (QMEMC). The center aims to advance research and training in the field of quantum science and technology. Completed in May 2024, QMEMC received support totaling CAD 4.9 million from the Government of British Columbia and the Canada Foundation for Innovation.

Researchers at Columbia University have recently succeeded in creating a unique quantum state of matter called a Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC)  using molecules. Their BEC, made of sodium-cesium molecules, remained stable for two seconds under the conditions of being cooled to a temperature of only 5 nanokelvin.

Recently, New York University’s Center for Quantum Information Physics (CQIP) and the University of Copenhagen’s Niels Bohr Institute have established a collaboration to develop superconductor and semiconductor materials for quantum computing. In this collaboration, CQIP will work with the University of Copenhagen’s Novo Nordisk Foundation Quantum Computing Programme (NQCP) under the Niels Bohr Institute to explore the viability of superconductor-semiconductor quantum materials.