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  • Quantum Innovators - Fall 2024

    • Quantum Innovators - Fall 2024

    (Photo credit: Chromacity Ltd.)
    Julian Hayes, CEO of Chromacity Ltd.
    Lasers & Sources

    Quantum world, meet Chromacity Ltd.

    Oct. 16, 2024
    In this Q&A with Chromacity CEO Julian Hayes, he introduces us to the company, and it’ll be nearly impossible for anyone to ever top his company fun facts.
    (Photo credit: University of California Riverside)
    Shan-Wen Tsai (left) and Troy Losey.
    Quantum

    Spin center arrays serve as analog quantum simulators

    Troy Losey
    Oct. 11, 2024
    A chain of quantum magnetic objects, a.k.a. spin centers, can simulate a variety of magnetic phases of matter and the transitions between these phases.
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    Quantum

    Quantum advances and funding are flying

    Sally Cole Johnson
    Oct. 11, 2024
    Plenty of mindbendy quantum advances are flying right now.
    (Photo credit: Exail)
    Deployed on the top of Mount Etna since 2020 by the Italian National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), Exail’s Absolute Quantum Gravimeter has demonstrated its capability to detect minute gravity variations induced by magmatic activities.
    Test & Measurement

    Expanding quantum technology capabilities

    Bruno Desruelle
    Oct. 9, 2024
    Exail, a global industrial company within the field of photonics and quantum technologies, was the first to commercialize industry-grade quantum gravity sensors. Its success in...
    (Photo credit: IOP)
    The team in the quantum optics lab: (left to right) Jan Heine, Philip Rübeling, Michael Kues, and Robert Johanning.
    Fiber Optics

    Conventional internet meets quantum internet?

    Sally Cole Johnson
    Oct. 7, 2024
    A transmitter-receiver concept to transmit entangled photons over optical fiber may enable transmitting both the quantum and conventional internet on the same fiber.

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    (Image credit: L. Guarneri et al., Nano Lett., 24, 21, 6240–6246 [2024]; https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.4c00694)
    A microscope image of the thinnest lens in the world.
    Optics

    Quantum effects lead to world’s thinnest flat lens

    Sally Cole Johnson
    Oct. 3, 2024
    Quantum mechanical exciton resonances of a two-dimensional (2D) quantum material inspire physicists to explore excitons as resonant building blocks for tunable next-gen anatomically...
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    Quantum

    NSF $20M grant funds National Quantum Nanofab at CU Boulder

    Sept. 27, 2024
    In this Q&A, Scott Diddams, a professor in the University of Colorado (CU) Boulder’s Department of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, shares his plans for the National...
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    Quantum

    Quantinuum eyes $10B IPO: What’s its potential impact on the quantum industry?

    Eric Mounier
    Sept. 26, 2024
    A $10B IPO for Quantinuum may catalyze growth within the quantum sector, spur more investment, and bring quantum computing into the spotlight.
    (Image credit: Mark E. Turiansky)
    FIGURE 1. Schematic rendition of a quantum defect emitting a single photon.
    Quantum

    Overcoming inefficiency for quantum light generation

    Mark E. Turiansky
    Sept. 16, 2024
    Fundamental studies provide new insights into efficiency of single-photon production from quantum defects.
    (Photo credit: University of Rostock)
    Matthias Heinrich (left), Alexander Szameit (center), and Max Ehrhardt (right).
    Quantum

    Can topology help transmit and process quantum information?

    Sally Cole Johnson
    Sept. 13, 2024
    Yes—although topology is commonly perceived as a single particle or “classical” phenomenon, it’s also valid within the quantum realm and may play a big role in quantum computing...
    (Photo credit: Craig Fritz/Sandia National Laboratories)
    Sandia National Laboratories’ Scientist Jongmin Lee (left) prepares a rubidium cold-atom cell for an atom interferometry experiment while Scientists Ashok Kodigala (right) and Michael Gehl initialize the controls for a packaged single-sideband modulator chip.
    Quantum

    Silicon photonic microchip components enable quantum sensing

    Sally Cole Johnson
    Sept. 5, 2024
    Scientists create a chipscale photonic modulator to control light on a microchip and perform cold-atom interferometry with it.
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    Quantum

    Quantum computing moves from NISQ to FTQC

    Doug Finke
    Aug. 29, 2024
    While a hard demarcation between these two eras was expected by some, it’s trending toward more of an overlap and gradual transition between when one era ends and the other begins...
    (Photo credit: Breeana Elliot)
    Quantum

    Terahertz metasurface optical cavity ‘light trap’ creates quantum states

    Sally Cole Johnson
    Aug. 2, 2024
    Scientists sugar-coat terahertz (THz) metasurfaces to hybridize molecules with THz light—and demonstrate a new optical cavity design—to explore the unique properties of strongly...