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Apr 25, 2022

PsiQuantum’s Path to 1 Million Qubits by the Middle of the Decade

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

PsiQuantum, founded in 2016 by four researchers with roots at Bristol University, Stanford University, and York University, is one of a few quantum computing startups that’s kept a moderately low PR profile. (That’s if you disregard the roughly $700 million in funding it has attracted.) The main reason is PsiQuantum has eschewed the clamorous public chase for NISQ (near-term intermediate scale quantum) computers and set out to develop a million-qubit system the company says will deliver big gains on big problems as soon as it arrives.

When will that be?

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Apr 25, 2022

The Arrow of Time in Causal Networks

Posted by in categories: cosmology, particle physics, quantum physics

April, 2022


Sean Carroll (Caltech and Santa Fe Institute)
https://simons.berkeley.edu/events/causality-program-externa…-institute.
Causality.

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Apr 24, 2022

Ask Ethan: What’s the real science behind Google’s time crystal?

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics, science

Google has developed a discrete time crystal on a quantum computer. However, claims that it violates thermodynamics are untrue.

Apr 24, 2022

UCI scientists turn a hydrogen molecule into a quantum sensor

Posted by in categories: materials, quantum physics

Apr 24, 2022

The Super Zoom

Posted by in category: quantum physics

CG animation of amazing zoom to macro view to the “quantum world”, shown on an approximate scale of the reality of physics…

Apr 24, 2022

String Theory Meets Loop Quantum Gravity

Posted by in category: quantum physics

Two leading candidates for a “theory of everything,” long thought to be incompatible, may be two sides of the same coin.

Apr 23, 2022

Light-induced ferromagnetism in moiré superlattices

Posted by in categories: engineering, quantum physics

A study reveals light as a new dynamic knob to control ferromagnetic order in moiré superlattices.

Apr 23, 2022

Versatile neutral atoms take on quantum circuits

Posted by in categories: particle physics, quantum physics

Multi-qubit circuits realized with cold atom arrays.

Apr 22, 2022

Titan’s largest crater might be the perfect cradle for life

Posted by in categories: chemistry, quantum physics, space

Impacts on Saturn’s mysterious moon may have mixed water and organic molecules in a warm environment.


Physicists at the University of California, Irvine have demonstrated the use of a hydrogen molecule as a quantum sensor in a terahertz laser-equipped scanning tunneling microscope, a technique that can measure the chemical properties of materials at unprecedented time and spatial resolutions.

Apr 22, 2022

Scientists turn a hydrogen molecule into a quantum sensor

Posted by in categories: chemistry, computing, particle physics, quantum physics

Physicists at the University of California, Irvine have demonstrated the use of a hydrogen molecule as a quantum sensor in a terahertz laser-equipped scanning tunneling microscope, a technique that can measure the chemical properties of materials at unprecedented time and spatial resolutions.

This new technique can also be applied to analysis of two-dimensional materials which have the potential to play a role in advanced energy systems, electronics and quantum computers.

Today in Science, the researchers in UCI’s Department of Physics & Astronomy and Department of Chemistry describe how they positioned two bound atoms of hydrogen in between the silver tip of the STM and a sample composed of a flat copper surface arrayed with small islands of copper nitride. With pulses of the laser lasting trillionths of a second, the scientists were able to excite the hydrogen molecule and detect changes in its quantum states at and in the ultrahigh vacuum environment of the instrument, rendering atomic-scale, time-lapsed images of the sample.