Quantum Motion, a UK-based quantum computing scale-up founded by Professor John Morton, University College London (UCL), and Professor Simon Benjamin, University of Oxford, has worked alongside Goldman Sachs to research how quantum computers can be used in financial services to perform complex calculations, such as options pricing. The research, which explored how intricate multi-qubit operations can be applied within pricing algorithms, is now undergoing peer-review and has been published on the arXiv, an open-access archive of scientific research papers.

Tyndall has welcomed a cutting-edge quantum light source as part of QuanTour, a groundbreaking European science outreach project. This unique project, which is in anticipation of the UNESCO International Year of Quantum Science and Technology 2025, aims to inspire the public and shed light on the future of quantum communication.

A new technique for growing these microscopic crystals, published this week in Science, has not only found a new, more efficient way to build a useful type of quantum dot, but also opened up a whole group of novel chemical materials for future researchers’ exploration.

A research team led by Academician Guo Guangcan, Prof. GUO Guoping and Prof. LI Haiou from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), collaborating with Researcher ZHANG Jianjun from the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) achieved coherent population trapping (CPT) in a semiconductor double quantum dot (DQD) system. Their work was published in Nano Letters.

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory may have found a way to resolve this dilemma. It involves a scintillator material composed of spherical particles that are 20 billionths of a meter in size. Even though they are incredibly small, these nanoparticles have an intricate structure composed of a ball-like core of cadmium sulfide surrounded by a thin shell of cadmium selenide and a thicker shell of cadmium sulfide. Collaborating on this project were scientists from DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Bowling Green State University (BGSU) and Northwestern University.

Researchers worldwide are on the hunt to capture coherence, a unique and powerful feature of quantum mechanics in which individual particles like electrons or packets of light called photons sync up and behave as a larger whole. But observing such particles as they pair has been no easy feat with conventional microscopes based on classical physics principles. A quantum nano-scope is needed, and Columbia is preparing to build it.

Quantum researchers at The University of New Mexico and New Mexico State University received a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to research the development of a photonic quantum computer that can operate at room temperature in a pilot program titled “Quantum Computing Applications of Photonics.”

In recent theoretical research, a team of physicists, led by University of Rhode Island professor Vanita Srinivasa, envisions a modular system for scaling quantum processors with a flexible way of linking qubits over long distances to enable them to work in concert to perform quantum operations.

A pan-European, Asian, and South American research team has developed a new light source that emits exceptionally bright, entangled photons. These special pairs of photons are the cornerstone of quantum communication, a revolutionary technology that promises ultra-secure data transmission. Unlike traditional sources, this new device overcomes limitations by achieving high brightness and entanglement, paving the way for more efficient and secure quantum networks.

Researchers at QuTech developed somersaulting spin qubits for universal quantum logic. This achievement may enable efficient control of large semiconductor qubit arrays. The research group published their demonstration of hopping spins in Nature Communications and their work on somersaulting spins in Science