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This past year, a new two-story building took shape in the northeast corner of the Caltech campus. Though modest in design, what takes place inside

UArizona Engineers Demonstrate a Quantum Advantage In a new paper, researchers in the College of Engineering and James C. Wyant College of Optical Sciences experimentally demonstrate how quantum resources aren't just dreams for the distant future – they can improve the technology of today. By Emily Dieckman, College of Engineering Today Quantum computing and quantum sensing have the potential to be vastly more powerful than their classical counterparts. Not only could a fully realized quantum computer take just seconds to solve equations that would take a classical computer thous...

Select items from the office of the late and eminent theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking will go on display at the Science Museum in London next year. The announcement comes following an acceptance in lieu agreement, which allows families to offset tax, between the Cambridge University Library, the Science Museum Group and the UK Government. Thanks to this, Professor Hawking's considerable collection of scientific and personal papers will remain in Cambridge in the collections of the university library.  This archive includes correspondence dating from 1944–2008, a first draft of a 'Brie...

By George Nott2021-05-21T13:39:00+01:00 From delivery routes to world hunger, can cutting-edge quantum technology help solve the biggest challenges in food and drink? Spooky action at a distance” is how Albert Einstein described quantum entanglement, one of the strange phenomena of particle physics that, years after his assessment, is now forming the basis for an entirely new form of computing. It’s a far more complex iteration of the computers we use today, which represent information in binary bits – for example, on/off, 0/1. A quantum computer uses entangled quantum bits (or qubits) ...

17 Mar 2021 Two professors are calling for abolishing the physics term “quantum supremacy” because it is “uncomfortably reminiscent of ‘white supremacy.'” In an op-ed, titled, “Physicists Need to Be More Careful with How They Name Things” for the  Scientific American, St. Anselm College physics professor Ian Durham, University of Bristol math professor Karoline Wiesner, and freelance journalist Daniel Garisto call for doing away with the physics term “quantum supremacy” in an anti-racist measure. The popular term, coined in 2012 by quantum physicist John Preskill, refers...