/ en-us Â鶹ÒùÔº internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Â鶹ÒùÔºics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. A new study led by researchers at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Manchester has achieved a major advance in quantum materials, developing a method to precisely engineer single quantum defects in diamond—an essential step toward scalable quantum technologies. The results have been published in the journal Nature Communications. /news/2025-06-scientists-precision-quantum-defects-diamond.html Optics & Photonics Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Thu, 12 Jun 2025 16:20:03 EDT news668964001 Research at the Quantum Systems Accelerator has been steadily breaking new ground, quickening the pace toward flexible, stable quantum computers with capabilities well beyond those of today's classical machines. /news/2025-06-ion-advances-ground-quantum.html Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Thu, 12 Jun 2025 15:33:05 EDT news668961181 A collaborative effort between Meta, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory leverages Los Alamos' expertise in building tools for molecular screening capabilities. The release of "Open Molecules 2025", an unprecedented dataset of molecular simulations, can accelerate opportunities for machine learning to transform research in fields such as biology, materials science and energy technologies. /news/2025-06-unprecedented-dataset-molecular-simulations-ai.html Analytical Chemistry Thu, 12 Jun 2025 10:59:04 EDT news668944742 As quantum computing develops, scientists are working to identify tasks for which quantum computers have a clear advantage over classical computers. So far, researchers have only pinpointed a handful of these problems, but in a new paper published in Â鶹ÒùÔºical Review Letters, scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have added one more problem to this very short list. /news/2025-06-problem-quantum.html Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Thu, 12 Jun 2025 10:56:03 EDT news668944561 For the past six years, Los Alamos National Laboratory has led the world in trying to understand one of the most frustrating barriers that faces variational quantum computing: the barren plateau. /news/2025-06-quantum-problem-barren-plateau.html Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Thu, 12 Jun 2025 10:19:41 EDT news668942365 Recent technological advances have opened new exciting possibilities for the development of cutting-edge quantum devices, including quantum random access memory (QRAM) systems. These are memory architectures specifically meant to be integrated inside quantum computers, which can simultaneously retrieve data from multiple 'locations' leveraging a quantum effect known as coherent superposition. /news/2025-06-quantum-random-access-memory-based.html Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Thu, 12 Jun 2025 10:19:23 EDT news668942346 Sharing disappointing results with a world of researchers working to find what they hope will be the "discovery of the century" isn't an easy task, but that is what Penn State theoretical physicist Zoltan Fodor and his international research group did five years ago with their extensive calculation of the strength of the magnetic field around the muon—a sub-atomic particle similar to, but heavier than, an electron. At the time, their finding was the first to close the gap between theory and experimental measurements, bringing it in line with the Standard Model, the well-tested physics theory that has guided particle physics for decades. /news/2025-06-qa-physics-scientific-disappointment.html General Â鶹ÒùÔºics Thu, 12 Jun 2025 09:46:05 EDT news668940361 Researchers have determined how to use magnons—collective vibrations of the magnetic spins of atoms—for next-generation information technologies, including quantum technologies with magnetic systems. /news/2025-06-harnessing-magnons-quantum.html Condensed Matter Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Thu, 12 Jun 2025 08:59:38 EDT news668937572 In a study that closes a long-standing knowledge gap in fundamental science, researchers Boerge Hemmerling and Stephen Kane at the University of California, Riverside, have successfully measured the electric dipole moment of aluminum monochloride (AlCl), a simple yet scientifically crucial diatomic molecule. /news/2025-06-decades-mystery-alcl-dipole-moment.html General Â鶹ÒùÔºics Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Thu, 12 Jun 2025 04:32:55 EDT news668921559 In a new study, physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have used a cloud of atoms chilled down to incredibly cold temperatures to simultaneously measure acceleration in three dimensions—a feat that many scientists didn't think was possible. /news/2025-06-quantum-device-atoms-3d.html Condensed Matter Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 11 Jun 2025 14:18:04 EDT news668870281 Randomness is incredibly useful. People often draw straws, throw dice or flip coins to make fair choices. Random numbers can enable auditors to make completely unbiased selections. Randomness is also key in security; if a password or code is an unguessable string of numbers, it's harder to crack. Many of our cryptographic systems today use random number generators to produce secure keys. /news/2025-06-quantum-mechanics-random-demand.html Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 11 Jun 2025 11:00:11 EDT news668766840 Xanadu has achieved a significant milestone in the development of scalable quantum hardware by generating error-resistant photonic qubits on an integrated chip platform. A foundational result in Xanadu's roadmap, this first-ever demonstration of such qubits on a chip is published in Nature. /news/2025-06-chip-photonic-qubit-enables-gkp.html Optics & Photonics Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Tue, 10 Jun 2025 11:41:03 EDT news668774461 Technology veteran IBM on Tuesday laid out a plan to have a "practical" quantum computer tackling big problems before the end of this decade. /news/2025-06-ibm-real-world-edge-quantum.html Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Tue, 10 Jun 2025 07:13:26 EDT news668758376 Â鶹ÒùÔºicists at the University of Oxford have set a new global benchmark for the accuracy of controlling a single quantum bit, achieving the lowest-ever error rate for a quantum logic operation—just 0.000015%, or one error in 6.7 million operations. This record-breaking result represents nearly an order of magnitude improvement over the previous benchmark, set by the same research group a decade ago. /news/2025-06-physicists-world-qubit-accuracy.html Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Mon, 09 Jun 2025 15:44:56 EDT news668702690 One of the current hot research topics is the combination of two of the most recent technological breakthroughs: machine learning and quantum computing. /news/2025-06-quantum-machine-small-scale-photonic.html Optics & Photonics Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Mon, 09 Jun 2025 11:21:04 EDT news668686862 Researchers in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a machine learning framework that can predict with quantum-level accuracy how materials respond to electric fields, up to the scale of a million atoms—vastly accelerating simulations beyond quantum mechanical methods, which can model only a few hundred atoms at a time. /news/2025-06-electric-response-materials-million-atoms.html Condensed Matter Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Mon, 09 Jun 2025 08:54:04 EDT news668678042 The reliable manipulation of the speed at which light travels through objects could have valuable implications for the development of various advanced technologies, including high-speed communication systems and quantum information processing devices. Conventional methods for manipulating the speed of light, such as techniques leveraging so-called electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) effects, work by utilizing quantum interference effects in a medium, which can make it transparent to light beams and slow the speed of light through it. /news/2025-06-nonreciprocal-cavity-magnonics-device.html Optics & Photonics Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Mon, 09 Jun 2025 06:48:02 EDT news668424797 Quantum materials exhibit remarkable emergent properties when they are excited by external sources. Functional applications of these properties rely heavily on their tunability in real time. However, these excited states decay rapidly once the excitation is removed, limiting their practical applications. /news/2025-06-quantum-state-lifetimes-laser-triggered.html Optics & Photonics Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Thu, 05 Jun 2025 13:08:01 EDT news668347675 A research team from Skoltech, AIRI, Tomsk Polytechnic University, and Sber has proposed and tested an approach to predicting the modification of material properties. Artificial intelligence models that were pre-trained on a small amount of data enabled a significant increase in the calculation of the formation energies in possible configurations of higher tungsten boride doped with other metals. /news/2025-06-ai-metal-doped-compounds-mechanical.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Thu, 05 Jun 2025 10:05:04 EDT news668336701 A team led by Kenneth Merz, Ph.D., Staff at Cleveland Clinic's Center for Computational Life Sciences, showed how quantum computers can be used for investigating how molecules act in aqueous solutions. /news/2025-06-hybrid-quantum-classical-molecular-behavior.html Analytical Chemistry Thu, 05 Jun 2025 09:50:03 EDT news668335801 In a study by TU Wien and FU Berlin, researchers have measured what happens when quantum physical information is lost. This clarifies important connections between thermodynamics, information theory and quantum physics. /news/2025-06-quantum-physics.html Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Thu, 05 Jun 2025 09:25:03 EDT news668334301 Transistors are fundamental to microchips and modern electronics. Invented by Bardeen and Brattain in 1947, their development is one of the 20th century's key scientific milestones. Transistors work by controlling electric current using an electric field, which requires semiconductors. Unlike metals, semiconductors have fewer free electrons and an energy band gap that makes it harder to excite electrons. /news/2025-06-physicists-figure-electric-field-superconductivity.html Superconductivity Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Thu, 05 Jun 2025 08:38:37 EDT news668331511 Using advanced computational modeling, a research team led by the University of Oxford, working in partnership with the Instituto Superior Técnico at the University of Lisbon, has achieved the first-ever real-time, three-dimensional simulations of how intense laser beams alter the "quantum vacuum"—a state once assumed to be empty, but which quantum physics predicts is full of virtual electron-positron pairs. /news/2025-06-physicists-recreate-extreme-quantum-vacuum.html General Â鶹ÒùÔºics Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:02:03 EDT news668325721 An international research collaboration featuring scientists from the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering and the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory has discovered a fundamental universal principle that governs how microscopic whirlpools interact, collide and transform within quantum fluids, which also has implications for understanding fluids that behave according to classical physics. /news/2025-06-universal-law-quantum-vortex-dynamics.html Soft Matter Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 04 Jun 2025 14:47:04 EDT news668267221 An international team led by Innsbruck quantum physicist Peter Zoller, together with the US company QuEra Computing, has directly observed a gauge field theory similar to models from particle physics in a two-dimensional analog quantum simulator for the first time. The study, published in Nature, opens up new possibilities for research into fundamental physical phenomena. /news/2025-06-2d-quantum-simulator.html Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 04 Jun 2025 13:14:49 EDT news668261686 Australian researchers are turning to nature for the next computing revolution, harnessing living cells and biological systems as potential replacements for traditional silicon chips. A new paper from Macquarie University scientists outlines how engineered biological systems could solve limitations in traditional computing, as international competition accelerates the development of "semisynbio" technologies. /news/2025-06-biology-future.html Biotechnology Molecular & Computational biology Wed, 04 Jun 2025 11:08:04 EDT news668254081 A team at EPFL and the University of Arizona has discovered that making molecules bigger and more flexible can actually extend the life of quantum charge flow, a finding that could help shape the future of quantum technologies and chemical control. Their study is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. /news/2025-06-bigger-molecules-quantum-longer.html Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:19:28 EDT news668251155 The entry of quantum computers into society is currently hindered by their sensitivity to disturbances in the environment. Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, and Aalto University and the University of Helsinki in Finland, now present a new type of exotic quantum material, and a method that uses magnetism to create stability. /news/2025-06-magnetism-exotic-material-robust-quantum.html Condensed Matter Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 04 Jun 2025 09:22:12 EDT news668247727 The extraction of work (i.e., usable energy) from quantum processes is a key focus of quantum thermodynamics research, which explores the application of thermodynamics laws to quantum systems. Meanwhile, other quantum physics research has been investigating the non-Markovian dynamics of open quantum systems, which entail the influence of past states on the systems' future evolution. /news/2025-06-general-framework-bridges-quantum-thermodynamics.html Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 04 Jun 2025 09:19:22 EDT news668247549 A project led by the University of Melbourne's Dr. Manjith Bose and Professor Jeff McCallum, who are also members of the ARC Center of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology, has identified a promising class of superconductors that may potentially avoid the need for high levels of cryogenic cooling. These advanced materials can be manufactured, be integrable and be compatible using standard silicon and superconducting electronics approaches. /news/2025-06-superconductors-quantum-circuit-elements-high.html Superconductivity Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 04 Jun 2025 09:12:04 EDT news668247121