Category: Quantum

Famed physicist who lent his name to the Higgs boson has passed away. One of the major triumphs in particle physics of recent years was the search for the Higgs Boson – the fundamental particle associated with the Higgs field, a field that gives mass to other fundamental particles such as electrons and quarks. A…

Physicists have proved that a subatomic particle can switch into its antiparticle alter-ego and back again, in a new discovery revealed today. The extraordinarily precise measurement was made by UK researchers using the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment at CERN. It has provided the first evidence that charm mesons can change into their antiparticle…

Quantum batteries could one day revolutionize energy storage through what seems like a paradox – the bigger the battery, the faster it charges. For the first time, a team of scientists has now demonstrated the quantum mechanical principle of superabsorption that underpins quantum batteries in a proof-of-concept device. The quirky world of quantum physics is…

Scientists studying particle collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)—a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science user facility for nuclear physics research at DOE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory—have produced definitive evidence for two physics phenomena predicted more than 80 years ago. The results were derived from a detailed analysis of more than 6,000 pairs…

  The new light-based quantum computer Jiuzhang has achieved quantum supremacy   A second type of quantum computer has now performed a calculation impossible for a traditional computer. Source: www.sciencenews.org/article/new-light-based-quantum-computer-jiuzhang-supremacy

  The biggest flipping challenge in quantum computing   To realize their dreams, developers must learn to tame the noise that jostles their machines’ delicate quantum bits. In October 2019, researchers at Google announced to great fanfare that their embryonic quantum computer had solved a problem that would overwhelm the best supercomputers. Some said the…

  Silq is a new high-level programming language for quantum computers – TechCrunch    Quantum computing hardware continues to improve to the point where we may actually see real-world use cases in the next few years and so it’s probably no surprise that we are also seeing a steady increase in research projects that focus…

  Quantum computing hardware continues to improve to the point where we may actually see real-world use cases in the next few years and so it’s probably no surprise that we are also seeing a steady increase in research projects that focus on how to best program these machines. One of the newest… Source: techcrunch.com/2020/06/15/silq-is-a-new-high-level-programming-language-for-quantum-computers/

Bose-Einstein condensates made on the International Space Station could reach temperatures lower than any known in the universe. On the International Space Station, astronauts are weightless. Atoms are, too. That weightlessness makes it easier to study a weird quantum state of matter known as a Bose-Einstein condensate. Now, the first Bose-Einstein condensates made on the…