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Molecular qubit
Germany’s NVision announced details of a first-of-its-kind molecular qubit, designed and manufactured by the company. It is based on an engineered biphenyl carbene molecule. Lasers can be used to initialize and read the qubit, and microwaves can be used to manipulate its state. The company plans to place the qubit directly onto photonic integrated circuits in collaboration with the company HyperLight.
This work was published in Nature. NVision’s CTO Ilai Schwartz described the project in a talk at Northwestern University on the day of publication.
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Skyrmions
University of Pennsylvania and Yale materials scientists demonstrated a chip-based platform for manipulating quantum skyrmions, topologically stable configurations that can be induced in a photon and shared by a entangled photon. The team also showed that they could disrupt the photons’ entanglement and the skyrmion’s configuration could remain intact.
“If we can learn to encode information in such resilient patterns, that could lay the groundwork for much more reliable quantum networks,” Penn’s Liang Feng said.
This work was published in Nature Physics.
Skyrmion chip. Photo from Bella Ciervo, University of Pennsylvania.
Toyota
The University of Chicago and Toyota announced a research collaboration, with Toyota committing up to $1 million per year to support up to eight graduate students in both theory and experimental labs. Early projects will focus on quantum sensing, secure communications, and materials discovery.
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