Researchers at Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley have taken direct images of the Wigner molecular crystal, a new quantum phase of an electron solid.The breakthrough was enabled by the research team’s new scanning tunneling microscope technique.

In a recent study, researchers from Chiba University delved into a promising path toward solid-state optical cooling using perovskite quantum dots. Focused on anti-Stokes photoluminescence, a process in which materials emit higher-energy photons than they absorb, this research could revolutionize the existing cooling technology. Their findings highlight both the potential and limitations of this novel cooling approach, with exciting prospects in energy-saving technology.

A team led by Prof. LU Zhengtian and Researcher XIA Tian from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) realized Schrödinger-cat state with minute-scale lifetime using optically trapped cold atoms, significantly enhancing the sensitivity of quantum metrology measurement. The study was published in Nature Photonics.

Led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) with Sandia National Laboratories as the lead partner, QSA brings together an ecosystem of 15 institutions in North America. With over 60 principal investigators, 130 staff, 91 postdocs, and 139 students, QSA advances national particle physics research by co-designing across institutions.

A research team led by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has devised a unique method to observe changes in materials at the atomic level. The technique opens new avenues for understanding and developing advanced materials for quantum computing and electronics.

Physicists at Purdue University have developed an innovative method to detect the motion of individual particles in quantum materials. This work, led by Alex Ruichao Ma, assistant professor of Physics and Astronomy, offers new insights into the quantum world and paves the way for future discoveries in quantum science and technologies.

Researchers from the Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat have developed a method to model a central theory of quantum gravity in the laboratory. Their goal: to decipher previously unexplained phenomena in the quantum world.

Quantum Bridge, a company offering a range of advanced quantum-safe data-security solutions, today announces that it has been accepted into a fast-track government procurement program. This follows extensive testing by the Canadian Government of the company’s Symmetric-Key Distribution System (SDS).

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have for the first time succeeded in combining two major research fields in photonics by creating a nanoobject with unique optical qualities. Since the object is a thousand times thinner than the human hair, yet very powerful, the breakthrough has great potential in the development of efficient and compact nonlinear optical devices.

A research team led by Professor Monika Aidelsburger and Professor Immanuel Bloch from the LMU Faculty of Physics has investigated this question concerning quantum many-body systems and found indications that they can be described macroscopically through simple diffusion equations with random noise. The study was recently published in the journal Nature Physics.