Tag: quantum computers

  • Science & Tech

    Whimsical steampunk tour of quantum thermodynamics

    New book uses examples of a genre that blends futuristic technology with Victorian style to explain concepts of revolutionary new science.

    Nicole Yunger Halpern on Zoom.
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    A speedier solution for molecular biomedical research

    New quantum-classical algorithm brings nuclear magnetic resonance readings closer to “near-term” quantum computing.

    Abstract molecule network background.
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    Identifying exotic properties

    Though they have unusual properties that could be useful in everything from superconductors to quantum computers, topological materials are frustratingly difficult to predictably produce. To speed up the process, Harvard researchers in a series of studies develop methods for efficiently identifying new materials that display topological properties.

    illustration of water and how symmetry indicators work as a net to catch topological materials
  • Campus & Community

    Nobel physics laureate Roy Glauber dies at 93

    Roy Glauber, the pioneering theoretical physicist who received the 2005 Nobel Prize in physics, died on Dec. 26. He was 93.

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    Shining a light on quantum bits

    A Ph.D. student working in the lab of Professor Mikhail Lukin, co-director of the Quantum Science and Engineering Initiative, has demonstrated a method for engineering an interaction between two qubits using photons.

    A crystal with lasers going through it
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    New way to model molecules

    Scientists from Harvard and Google have demonstrated for the first time that a quantum computer could be used to model the electron interactions in a complex molecule.

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    Quantum computing, no cooling required

    Using a pair of impurities in ultra-pure, laboratory-grown diamonds, researchers have created room-temperature quantum bits and have stored information in them for nearly two seconds — an increase of nearly six orders of magnitude over the life span of earlier systems. The work, described in the June 8 issue of Science, is a critical first…