In collaboration with Hervé Lissek and Romain Fleury at EPFL’s Laboratory of Wave Engineering, Padlewski has built a novel acoustic system for exploring condensed matter and their macroscopic properties, all the while circumventing the extremely sensitive nature that is inherent to quantum phenomena. Moreover, the acoustic system can be tweaked to study properties that go beyond solid-state physics. The results are published in Physical Review B.

And emerging research in the US suggests that joining the quantum workforce doesn’t require deep knowledge of quantum mechanics or, in some cases, any prior quantum experience at all.

A study published in JCAP places new limits on quantum gravity using data from the underwater detector KM3NeT.

The Opportunity Calgary Investment Fund (OCIF) is investing up to $675,000 over the next three years into QAI Ventures to accelerate the development of quantum talent and local startups. This strategic investment will enhance Calgary's quantum innovation pipeline, fostering a new generation of entrepreneurs to tackle industry-relevant challenges through applied quantum technology.

The University of Basel and the University of Bern are setting up a new research center to enable the construction of superconducting quantum units. The Werner Siemens Foundation is supporting the project with a total of CHF 15 million over the next eleven years.

In their ongoing efforts to push the boundaries of quantum possibilities, physicists at WashU have created a new type of “time crystal,” a novel phase of matter that defies common perceptions of motion and time.

In the coming months, the Defense Innovation Unit’s (DIU’s) Transition of Quantum Sensing (TQS) program will demonstrate the military utility of quantum sensors to address strategic Joint Force competencies like positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT), as well as anomaly detection. Significant progress on the scientific understanding and product development of quantum sensors, offering the promise of significant improvements in precision, accuracy, and sensitivity compared to classical sensors, is being made, and these solutions, as well as the supporting companies advancing these technologies, are ready to proceed forward.

Nuclear physicists at the University of Washington developed a new framework to systematically analyze the interplay of these approximations. They showed that the impact of such approximations can be minimized by tuning simulation parameters. Such optimizations are demonstrated in the context of spin models sharing key features with nuclear interactions.

Researchers at the University of Adelaide have performed the first imaging of embryos using cameras designed for quantum measurements.

In research inspired by the principles of quantum mechanics, researchers from Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) and the University of Oxford reveal new findings to understand why the human brain is able to make decisions quicker than the world’s most powerful computer in the face of a critical risk situation. The human brain has this capacity despite the fact that neurons are much slower at transmitting information than microchips, which raises numerous unknown factors in the field of neuroscience.