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Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL) have developed a technique for interrogating molecules on surfaces with spectroscopic precision and thereby reaching the ultimate quantum limit for the first time. With their findings, published in Science, the researchers open new opportunities for the study of molecule-surface interactions and molecular quantum technologies.

Researchers at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), in collaboration with the University of Minnesota and Kyung Hee University, have discovered a powerful new way to control tiny quantum light sources by twisting atomically thin layers of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN). In a study published in Science Advances, the team demonstrated that by stacking and twisting hBN layers, they could significantly shift the color and wavelength of quantum emitters. This twistable platfo

Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have turned a long-standing problem in superconductivity into a promising new resource for quantum computing. Magnetic vortices — tiny whirlpools of magnetic field that usually disrupt superconducting materials — have been shown to behave as controllable quantum states.

By adapting an algorithm from the 1980s to mathematical objects called tensor networks, researchers at the Flatiron Institute show that classical computers can tackle a class of problems previously claimed to be solvable only by quantum computers

Quantum mechanics’ famous measurement problem — illustrated by Schrödinger’s cat — may be one step closer to an experimental answer. Using the ultra-sensitive XENONnT dark matter detector deep underground in Italy, an international team has placed the strongest constraints yet on “collapse models,” theories proposing that quantum superpositions spontaneously collapse due to interactions with a noise field or gravity.

A new approach to looking at solids provides theoretical limits on some of their properties