Scientists from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in the United States have created a method to validate quantum algorithms for nuclear physics applications. The newly developed method makes validating these calculations more efficient-setting the stage for quantum advances over classical calculations in this field. The research has been published recently in the European Physical Journal A.

Recently, researchers from the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory have studied qubits built from atomic-level vacancies in silicon carbide using theoretical methods. By combining the state-of-the-art materials simulations and neural-network-based sampling technique, the research team discovered the atomistic generation mechanism of qubits from spin defects in a wide-bandgap semiconductor. Silicon carbide is a promising semiconductor, and the qubits made from it have long coherence times and all-optical spin initialization and read-out capabilities.