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Google Quantum Computer Is '47 Years' Faster Than #1 Supercomputer

ScienceAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

Progress towards fully capable and practical quantum computers isn't slowing down, and researchers from Google are the latest to announce a significant step forward in the capabilities of today's machines.

Jul 4, 2023

Astronomers use dead stars to measure gravitational waves produced by ancient black holes

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An international team of astronomers has detected a faint signal of gravitational waves reverberating through the universe. By using dead stars as a giant network of gravitational wave detectors, the collaboration—called NANOGrav—was able to measu...

Jul 4, 2023

Nanosheet technology developed to boost energy storage dielectric capacitors

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

A research group has used nanosheet technology to develop a dielectric capacitor for advanced electronic and electrical power systems. Innovations in energy storage technology are vital for the effective use of renewable energy and the mass produc...

Jul 4, 2023

Nanosheet technology developed to boost energy storage dielectric capacitors

Tech Xplore   -   Scientific News Websites

A research group led by Professor Minoru Osada at the Institute for Materials and Systems for Sustainability (IMaSS), Nagoya University in Japan, in collaboration with NIMS, has developed a nanosheet device with the highest energy storage performa...

Jul 4, 2023

Unlocking quantum potentials with Rydberg moire excitons

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Scientists report observing Rydberg moire excitons, which are moire-trapped Rydberg excitons in the monolayer semiconductor WSe2 adjacent to small-angle twisted bilayer graphene.

Jul 4, 2023

When graphene serves as a saturable absorber, it can generate two types of mode-locking states

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Passive mode-locked technology utilizes saturable absorbers' nonlinear absorption effect to regulate the cavity's loss and phase to generate mode-locked pulses. Graphene has a unique energy bandgap structure, a low absorption coefficient...

Jul 4, 2023

IonQ and QuantumBasel Partner on Quantum Data Center

Photonics Media   -   Scientific News Websites

Quantum computing developer IonQ has partnered with QuantumBasel to jointly establish a European quantum data center. Two generations of quantum computers will be installed on site. The first quantum computer, with 35 algorithmic qubits (#AQ 35), ...

Jul 4, 2023

Functional surface refinement: Targeted control of growth dynamics of finest tin layers

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Nanometer-scale coatings with functional materials play an important role in many sensory, electronic and photonic applications. An international team of researchers, coordinated by Leibniz IPHT in Jena, Germany, has succeeded for the first time i...

Jul 4, 2023

Targeted control of growth dynamics of tin nanocoatings

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers succeeded for the first time in observing novel growth effects of tin coatings on silicon nanometer-structured surfaces.

Jul 4, 2023

Novel microwave isolator points the way to new radio cameras and quantum computers

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Researchers at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) have invented a novel microwave isolator and have demonstrated, for the first time, its basic principle that enables small isolators; essential for future quantum computers. This...

Jul 4, 2023

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