TNO is set to double its quantum testing facilities with the launch of a new hub at the House of Quantum in Delft. This expansion will provide much-needed space and resources to meet the growing demand for quantum information technology testing facilities from startups and scaleups. This will ensure that innovative quantum computing solutions can be developed and tested more efficiently. The new TNO hub, strategically located in the heart of the Delft quantum ecosystem provides enhanced accessibility and support for startups and is partly funded by the National Growth Fund programme Quantum Delta NL.

Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University (SBU) have shown that particles produced in collimated sprays called jets retain information about their origins in subatomic particle smashups. The study was recently published as an Editor’s Suggestion in the journal Physical Review Letters.

A research team led by scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has developed a new fabrication technique that could improve noise robustness in superconducting qubits, a key technology to enabling large-scale quantum computers.

QuEra Computing hosted a competition to bring together STEM students with expertise in quantum computing and creative students skilled in digital media. Students in NYU Tandon’s Integrated Design & Media program contributed to projects judged to be among the best of the week.

The Milner Therapeutics Institute were delighted to host a signing ceremony with Yonsei University last week, for a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between our institute at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, and the Cambridge Centre for AI in Medicine.

In the new study, the team formulated a quantum algorithm (a set of computer instructions) that can be used in theory to find low-energy states—what physicists call local minima—of any material. Their study theoretically proves that the algorithm will perform much better than its classical counterparts.

The research team led by Professor Chang-Hee Cho from the Department of Physics and Chemistry at DGIST (President Kunwoo Lee) has successfully fine-tuned the Rabi oscillation of polaritons, quantum composite particles, by leveraging changes in electrical properties induced by crystal structure transformation. This study demonstrates that the properties of quantum particles can be controlled without the need for complex external devices, which is expected to greatly enhance the feasibility of practical quantum technology.

Research teams led by Prof. PAN Jianwei, LU Chaoyang, HU Yongheng, and others have realized a high-performance single-photon source with an efficiency beyond the scalable linear optical quantum computing loss tolerance threshold for the first time, and the comprehensive indicators have reached the international advanced level. The results were published in Nature Photonics on February 28th.

Prof. Liang Jiang and his postdoctoral associate Zhaoyou Wang at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME) have developed a new scheme to send quantum information through these transducers. Using their technique, they found they could send a full qubit’s information through a channel, paving the way for hybrid quantum networks. The results were published in Physical Review X.

Professor Thomas Vidick joined EPFL in late 2024. He works on problems at the interface of quantum information, theoretical computer science and cryptography. Thomas Vidick discovered quantum mechanics at the Master’s level and thought it was fascinating.