A recent study led by quantum researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory proved popular among the science community interested in building a more reliable quantum network.

Imagine a camera that doesn’t miss anything, one sensitive enough to detect individual photons of light. That’s the goal of Sarah Odinotski and Jack DeGooyer, two PhD researchers from the Institute for Quantum Computing and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The potential of their ambitious project was underlined when both were awarded prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships for their distinct but complementary research.

A multidisciplinary team of researchers from Rice University and Texas A&M University has received a $1.2 million award from the W.M. Keck Foundation to advance super-resolution imaging and single-molecule tracking by harnessing super-radiance, a quantum optical phenomenon with transformative potential for research and innovation in medicine, engineering and the physical sciences.

Quantum Computing Inc. (“QCi” or the “Company”), an innovative, integrated photonics and quantum optics technology company, today announced it has received a fifth purchase order for its thin film lithium niobate (TFLN) photonic chip foundry. The latest order comes from a research group based in Canada to support its research efforts on quantum photonics.

Now, in a recent study published in Physical Review Letters, Rey and JILA and NIST Fellow James K. Thompson, along with graduate student Sanaa Agarwal and researcher Asier Piñeiro Orioli from the University of Strasbourg, studied atom-light interactions in the case of effective four-level atoms, two ground (or metastable) and two excited levels arranged in specific one-dimensional and two-dimensional crystal lattices.

Quantum Source, a company developing technology for powerful, cost-effective, practical photonic quantum computers, today announced its pilot engagement with QC Design’s Plaquette, a state-of-the-art software tool for designing and optimizing fault-tolerant quantum computing architectures. This collaboration will boost Quantum Source’s capabilities to rigorously simulate, analyze, and refine the photonic fault-tolerance architectures integral to its proprietary large-scale quantum computing platform.

The new Emmy Noether junior research group “Quantum Network Nodes” was launched at the beginning of the year. It focuses on research in the fields of quantum computing and quantum communication and is headed by physicist Dr. Stephan Welte, who has acquired funding of 1.9 million euros for the project.

Demcon has partnered with TNO and the University of Twente to accelerate low-energy modulation of silicon nitride (SiN) photonic chips. These advanced photonic chips promise to create cheaper, faster, and more energy-efficient devices, enabling earlier disease diagnostics, safe self-driving vehicles, and more efficient data communication. By combining their expertise, Demcon, University of Twente and TNO are set to drive significant advancements in photonic chip technology. The research is partly funded by the National Growth Fund project PhotonDelta.

Now a team of scientists from Japan has demonstrated controlled mechanical oscillations of quantum vortex core lines in superfluid helium. Publishing their results in Nature Physics, the group's finding showcases the excitation and visualization of these helical waves on quantum vortices.

Quantum physicist Mehul Malik has received a prestigious fellowship in recognition of his outstanding contribution to advancing optics and photonics. Professor Malik has been elected a Fellow Member of Optica (formerly the Optical Society of America), a global society headquartered in Washington, DC, in the United States that promotes the science of light and photonics.