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    Three various types of organic chromophore-based polymers that are available commercially.
    Michael Lebby
    Oct. 18, 2024
    How would Max Planck see the quantum world being enabled by electro-optic polymers?
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    Julian Hayes, CEO of 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.
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    Shan-Wen Tsai (left) and Troy Losey.
    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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    Sally Cole Johnson
    Oct. 11, 2024
    Plenty of mindbendy quantum advances are flying right now.
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    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.
    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...

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    The team in the quantum optics lab: (left to right) Jan Heine, Philip Rübeling, Michael Kues, and Robert Johanning.
    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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    A microscope image of the thinnest lens in the world.
    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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    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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    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.
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    Microstructure fiber post-process and illuminated with white light.
    Sally Cole Johnson
    Sept. 19, 2024
    University of Bath physicists create microstructured hollow-core optical fibers to handle data transfer challenges expected with quantum computing.
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    FIGURE 1. Schematic rendition of a quantum defect emitting a single photon.
    Mark E. Turiansky
    Sept. 16, 2024
    Fundamental studies provide new insights into efficiency of single-photon production from quantum defects.
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    Matthias Heinrich (left), Alexander Szameit (center), and Max Ehrhardt (right).
    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...
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    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.
    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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    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...
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    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...