Pavia Team Models How Shaped Lasers Improve Ion Quantum Gates
Shaped laser gradients that excite axial phonons can cut crosstalk and spectral crowding, offering a clearer path to scalable trappedâion quantum gates.

Shaped laser gradients that excite axial phonons can cut crosstalk and spectral crowding, offering a clearer path to scalable trappedâion quantum gates.

Dayalbagh researchers have devised compact triorthogonal qudit errorâcorrection codes that cut resource overhead for quantum computing, especially qutrit magicâstate distillation, by up to an order of magnitude.
A proposed Andreevâqubit design reads quantum states via an oscillating supercurrent detected by a SQUID, offering a nearânondestructive alternative to ancillaâbased readout.
A new study shows that an intrinsic âquantum chargeâ in wavefunctions, revealed through Uvâinvariance of the WeylâHeisenberg group, cleanly separates particles from antiparticles and resolves longâstanding negativeâprobability paradoxes in firstâquantized relativistic models.
Binary quadrature encoding on Quantinuumâs 56âqubit trappedâion chip offers a compact, lowâdepth approach to bosonâmatter simulations, outperforming unary and Dicke methods while highlighting noiseâsensitivity challenges.
US defence quantum spending is verifiable at a few hundred million dollars a year, while broader market estimates vary wildly and should not be combined.
Defence quantumâcomputing funding jumped roughly twoâ to threeâfold in 2026, driven almost entirely by two newly announced DARPA deals, while obligated spending actually fell.
JohnâŻMartinis will discuss the path from early qubits to scalable quantum computers, highlighting hardware, architecture, and algorithmic challenges.
New mathematical bounds show the ThomasâFermiâvonâŻWeizsĂ€cker kinetic energy approximation becomes exact on a defined âPoincarĂ© density manifoldâ and converges at an optimalâŻNâ»ÂČ rate.
Harvard researchers have introduced a polylogarithmicâdepth quantum circuit for portâbased teleportation, simplifying its implementation and offering a new proof of parallelizable multiâqubit operations.
A single nonâHermitian defect in oneâdimensional quantum walks triggers scaleâfree localisation and two distinct phase transitions, revealing how minimal imperfections can dramatically reshape quantum dynamics.
An oralâhistory interview reveals how Yakir Aharonovâs decadesâlong collaborations shaped foundational quantum concepts such as the twoâstate vector formalism, weak values, and protective measurements.
A new distributed dualâcomb spectroscopy scheme uses a single squeezedâlight source to entangle multiple sensors, promising scalable broadband measurements but still lacking experimental proof.
A theoretical study shows that vibrating optomechanical membranes can imprint force information onto freeâelectron recoil spectra, offering a potentially higherâsensitivity alternative to conventional optical force sensors.
A new quantumâfield formalism lets researchers predict exact axionâinduced count distributions in cavity haloscopes, revealing nonâPoissonian signatures that could distinguish Gaussian, coherent or BoseâEinsteinâcondensate darkâmatter states, though current detectors lack the sensitivity to observe these effects.
A new molecularâdynamics code enables semiclassical simulations of electromagnetically induced transparency cooling for ion crystals up to 500 ions, advancing quantumâsensor design while highlighting remaining modeling challenges.
Nagoya University researchers show that diverse quantum fâdivergences can be treated uniformly through a retrodictiveâtest variational principle, enabling simultaneous optimisation across all operatorâconvex functions.
A team classified 371 fiveâparticle orthogonal product state configurations, showing that local operations and classical communication can perfectly distinguish 355 of them, while 16 remain indistinguishable.
Californiaâs Workforce Development Board is investing $5.74âŻmillion in five partnerships to create subâdoctoral training pipelines for quantum hardware technicians and related deepâtech roles.
Andreev qubits can encode their state in an intrinsic supercurrent, enabling a nearânonâdestructive readout that avoids ancillary qubits.
OSU physics professor Yingmei Liu was named a 2026 APS Fellow for pioneering work on spinor BoseâEinstein condensates, quantum walks, and Oklahomaâs only programmable quantum simulator that advances quantum sensing.
NowSecureâs benchmark shows that roughly 97% of mobile apps still lack any postâquantum cryptography, exposing a major security gap as regulatory deadlines approach.
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