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Nature covered a pair of recent studies that for the first time used experimental data to confirm simulations completed on quantum computers. One project was led by the French company Pasqal, and the other project was led by Purdue, with collaborators at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Oak Ridge and Los Alamos National Labs, and University of Tennessee. Neither has been peer reviewed.

The Pasqal team used a Rydberg-based quantum simulator to study a bulk-layered frustrated quantum magnet. The Purdue-led team used an IBM superconductor-based computer to study inelastic neutron-scattering in a gapless Luttinger liquid system.

Pasqal’s Alexandre Dauphin claimed that some of the team’s calculations achieved quantum advantage, besting what is possible on classical supercomputers.

This work was covered by Nature.

Researchers at the University of Central Florida demonstrated a new method of generating high-dimensional topologically protected photonic entanglement. It uses silicon photonic waveguide topological superlattices, which support nonlinear generation of energy-time-entangled photon pairs on a superposition of up to five topological modes.

“What we have shown with this new method is a scalable way to generate more and more complex entangled states, maintaining topological protection of those entangled states,” UCF’s Andrea Blanco-Redondo said in an announcement.

This work was published last week in Science.

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A team from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the University of California Santa Barbara demonstrated a chip-scale, stabilized, visible light laser capable of driving a trapped-ion atomic optical clock and quantum qubit.

“If you want scalability or portability with quantum technology, you need the laser systems to all be on chip too,” said UMass’s Robert Niffenegger. “We could have millions of qubits on one chip in a way that is not possible if you needed rooms full of lasers and optics. If you’re serious about getting to that scale, you have to look at how traditional computers have scaled through integration. That’s the vision we’re following.”

This work was published in Nature Communications.

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