Two University of Rhode Island physics professors have been awarded separate $800,000 grants as part of the National Science Foundation’s $39 million program to grow quantum research at institutions of higher education across the U.S.

The University of Missouri has joined the IBM Quantum Network, and established the state’s first IBM Quantum Innovation Center to provide researchers and institutions with access to advanced quantum computing through IBM’s cloud-based platform.

A team led by Prof. DING Dongsheng from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences experimentally observed higher-order and fractional discrete time crystals (DTCs) in periodically driven Rydberg atomic dissipative systems. Their study was published in Nature Communications.

It has been proven, in the incredibly tiny quantum realm, by an international team co-led by UC Santa Cruz physicist Jairo Velasco, Jr. In a new paper published on November 27 in Nature, the researchers detail an experiment that confirms a theory first put forth 40 years ago stating that electrons confined in quantum space would move along common paths rather than producing a chaotic jumble of trajectories.

Equal1, a global leader in silicon powered quantum computing, has today announced a major breakthrough for the quantum computing industry, demonstrating both world-leading performance for a silicon qubit array and the most complex quantum controller chip developed to date.

A team of physics educators from Italy, Hungary, Slovenia and Germany is focusing on a new approach to teaching quantum physics in schools. Traditional classroom teaching has tended to focus on presenting the history of the origins of quantum physics, which often poses problems for learners. Using the quantum measurement process as an example, the researchers have now published their first empirical findings on learning quantum physics – based on two-state systems – in the international journal Physical Review Physics Education Research.

Dr. Hyang-Tag Lim's research team at the Center for Quantum Technology at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) has implemented a quantum computing algorithm that can estimate interatomic bond distances and ground state energies with chemical accuracy using fewer resources than conventional methods, and has succeeded in performing accurate calculations without the need for additional quantum error mitigation techniques.

Interference (excess noise) to quantum signals from sunlight has slowed down the creation of a global scale quantum communications network – but now physicists at Heriot-Watt University have proposed a way to tackle this ‘daylight noise’ issue, paving the way for all-day satellite transmission.

Recently, a team led by the Laboratoire d’Optique Appliquée (CNRS), in collaboration with ICREA Professor at ICFO Jens Biegert and other multiple institutions (Institut für Quantenoptik - Leibniz Universität Hannover, Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena), demonstrated the quantum optical properties of high-harmonic generation in semiconductors. The results, appearing in Physical Review X Quantum, align with the previous theoretical predictions about HHG.

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Joins IQST as a New Partner.