Superconducting circuits speak directly with semiconductor-based qubits to push forward the technology needed for quantum computing.Read More
The 2012 Nobel Prize for physics goes to two pioneers of quantum reality, David Wineland, who works at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the U.S, and Serge Haroche of the Collège de France and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France. Both performed important work with controlling and measuring qubits.Read More
Theoretical physicists at the JQI have done an important step forward to understand qubits in a real-world setup. In a new study they show, for the first time, that qubits can successfully exist in a so called topological superconductor material even in the presence of impurities in the material and strong interactions among participating electrons.Read More
The University of Maryland and the JQI announce that they will participate with Coursera, the company that provides university classes online to thousands of students at no fee, in teaching four courses starting in the spring of 2013. Read More
For the past month the JQI has sponsored a website allowing visitors to vote for the topic they believe will capture this year’s Nobel Prize for physics. A total of 350 votes were cast and the results are now available. (The candidates are the personal opinion of Phil Schewe)Read More
Jacob Taylor, a fellow at the JQI, was named one of nine winners of this year’s Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals, also called “Sammies.”Read More
“Quantum weirdness,” a phrase related to the power and the un-intuitive nature of quantum reality, is expected to facilitate speeded-up computation---quantum computing---for performing certain specialized tasks, such as factoring numbers. A proposed scheme should be helpful in sustaining coherence by carefully making mid-calculation corrections.Read More
Since its inception in 1990, the Summer Girls physics program has served as haven for aspiring scientists, both girls and boys alike. This year’s program introduced many physics principles, including inertia and friction, energy and waves, optics, quantum physics, nuclear physics, and relativity.Read More
Stephen Powell, a scientist at the JQI, has sharpened the theoretical framework under which magnetic monopoles (entities with isolated north or south magnetic poles) can operate.Read More
Scientists working at the JQI and NIST have demonstrated that they can amplify weak light signals without adding noise while also carrying more information—more pixels—than other low-noise amplifiers.Read More
A new experiment conducted at the JQI examines the relationship between quantum coherence, an important aspect of certain materials kept at low temperature, and the imperfections in those materials.Read More
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