With graduate degrees from some of the most prestigious institutions in Europe, research stints at Harvard University and Rice University; and a post as scientist at the Center for Optical Quantum Technologies at the University of Hamburg in Germany, Dr. Rick Mukherjee now has a new distinction for his resume: inaugural director of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Quantum Center.

IonQ, a leader in the quantum computing and networking industries, today announced a new $21.1 million project via Qubitekk, Inc. to work with the United States Air Force Research Lab (AFRL).

Qolab, the first quantum computing startup incubated at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, has joined the CQE as a corporate partner — a move that its leaders say underscores the company’s foundational commitment to collaboration.

If you’d like to solve a math problem on a good old-fashioned chalkboard, you want the board clean and free of any previous markings so that you have space to work. Quantum computers have a similar need for a clean workspace, and a team including scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and University of Maryland have found an innovative and effective way to create and maintain it.

Wenchao Xu, tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics with a joint appointment at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), believes that large arrays of neutral atoms make a promising architecture for quantum computing and simulation. Her project, which is financially supported by ETH Zurich and by a SNSF Starting Grant that began last year, puts forward what Xu refers to as a dual-type, dual-element atom array bringing together individually trapped ytterbium atoms and small ensembles of rubidium atoms.

The EQUSPACE consortium (Enabling New Quantum Frontiers with Spin Acoustics in Silicon) has received 3.2 million euros from the European Innovation Council's (EIC) Pathfinder Open funding program to advance the development of silicon-based quantum technologies. In addition to the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), the project brings together four other partners from three EU countries and convenes experts from the fields of spin qubits, optomechanics and atomic silicon modifications to develop a novel silicon-based quantum platform.

A research team led by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has achieved a groundbreaking quantum simulation of the non-Hermitian skin effect in two dimensions using ultracold fermions, marking a significant advance in quantum physics research.

It is often difficult to find out which equations determine a particular quantum system. Normally, one first has to make theoretical assumptions and then conduct experiments to check whether these assumptions prove correct. Strikingly, researchers at the University of Innsbruck, opens an external URL in a new window, the Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, opens an external URL in a new window (IQOQI) and TU Wien (Vienna) have now jointly achieved an important step in this field: they have developed a method that allows them to read directly from the experiment which physical theory effectively describes the behaviour of the quantum system. This now allows for a new kind of quality control: it is possible to directly check whether the quantum simulator actually does what it is supposed to simulate. This should enable quantitative statements to be made about quantum systems that cannot be investigated directly.

The simultaneous capability of colloidal QDs to sustain robust room-temperature spin quantum coherence and to engage in photochemistry inspired Prof. WU Kaifeng and his team from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to explore a highly interdisciplinary field—using quantum coherence of QDs to control photochemical reactions.

Now, a team of researchers from IESL FORTH, Dr. Theocharis Lamprou and Dr. Paraskevas Tzallas, and ICFO, Dr. Javier Rivera-Dean, Philipp Stammer and ICREA Prof. Maciej Lewenstein, has successfully addressed both issues. They created generalized coherent state superpositions (GCSS), verified their quantum nature and employed them to drive a nonlinear optical process (which, per se, is indicative of the high photon number and intensity of the states). Their findings, demonstrated both theoretically and experimentally, have been reported in Physical Review Letters.