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Quantum state teleportation verifies information scrambling – Physics World

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New “unambiguous” test could help verify quantum computer calculations and even shed more light on what happens to quantum information when it falls into a black hole The post Quantum state teleportation verifies information scrambling appeared fi...

Mar 11, 2019

Quantum physicists succeed in controlling energy losses and shifts: Achievement can be applied to speed up quantum computers and design new quantum technological devices

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In a new study, scientists demonstrate that they can increase the dissipation rate, on demand, by a factor of thousand in a high-quality superconducting resonator -- just like the ones used in prototype quantum computers.

Mar 11, 2019

Quantum physicists succeed in controlling energy losses and shifts

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Quantum computers need to preserve quantum information for a long time to be able to crack important problems faster than a normal computer. Energy losses take the state of the qubit from one to zero, destroying stored quantum information at the s...

Mar 11, 2019

Opening the path to scaling silicon quantum computers

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Research collaboration between UNSW and the University of Sydney has overcome a fundamental hurdle to building quantum computers in silicon, opening the way to further develop the machines at scale.

Mar 11, 2019

Spontaneous spin polarization demonstrated in a two-dimensional material

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Physicists from the University of Basel have demonstrated spin alignment of free electrons within a two-dimensional material. Writing in the latest edition of Nature Nanotechnology, they described their observation of spontaneous spin polarization...

Mar 11, 2019

Quantum Dots Are Tuned to Build IR Camera Cheaply, Efficiently

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To build an inexpensive IR camera, scientists at the University of Chicago leveraged the wide spectral tunability of colloidal quantum dots (CQDs), tweaking the CQDs to develop a formula to detect shortwave IR and another formula to detect midwave...

Mar 11, 2019

Driving water down nanohighways

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Removing water vapor from air and other gas mixtures, which is crucial for many industrial processes and air conditioning, could become cheaper and more effective through polymer membrane technology now developed at KAUST.

Mar 11, 2019

Graphene and cobalt for creating new electromagnetic devices

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Researchers from IMDEA Nanociencia and other European centres have discovered that the combination of graphene with cobalt offers relevant properties in the field of magnetism. This breakthrough sets the stage for the development of new logic devi...

Mar 11, 2019

Combination of Graphene and Boron Nitride Results in New Three-Layer Superlattice

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Generally, the electrical properties of atomically thin graphene and a boron nitride layer change when these materials are combined at a slightly rotated angle. Now, for the first time, physicists...

Mar 11, 2019

Using Nanoscale Defects to Enhance the Properties of Ultrathin, 2D Materials

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According to a famous saying, nothing in this world is perfect, and this is not bad always. As part of a research at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley...

Mar 11, 2019

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