Professor Kang-Kuen Ni Wins New Horizons in Physics Prize 2023
The Breakthrough Prize Foundation awarded Professor Kang-Kuen Ni the 2023 New Horizons in Physics Prize for “the development of optical tweezer arrays to realize control of individual atoms for...
View ArticleHarvard-MIT CUA Receives Major Renewal Grant
The U.S. National Science Foundation’s Physics Frontiers Centers program renewed a grant to the MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms (CUA) to fund exploring, understanding, and harnessing mysterious...
View ArticleSelf-correcting quantum computers within reach?
Quantum computers promise to reach speeds and efficiencies impossible for even the fastest supercomputers of today. Yet the technology hasn’t seen much scale-up and commercialization largely due to its...
View ArticleBuilding Big Quantum Computers by Connecting Smaller Ones
Building quantum computers that can function despite their inherently noisy components is a long-standing goal for physicists. Quantum error correcting codes promise to make this possible, but to use...
View ArticleThe power of representation and connectivity in STEM education
CUA postdoc Edwin Pendrozo-Peñafiel served as one of the organizers for Bridging Talents and Opportunities: On Oct. 13 and 14 at the Wong Auditorium at MIT, an event called Bridging Talents and...
View ArticleQuantum-computing approach uses single molecules as qubits for first time
Platforms based on molecules manipulated using ‘optical tweezers’ might be able to perform complex physics calculations. Physicists have taken the first step towards building quantum computers out of...
View ArticleProgrammable Quantum Simulators Meet Quantum Chemistry
In an interdisciplinary collaborative effort, a team of CUA members in the Yelin, Lukin, and Yao groups joined forces with computational quantum chemists in Martin Head-Gordon’s group (UC Berkeley) to...
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Scalable Quantum Memory Control in Photonic Circuits
In a study published in “Nano Letters,” MIT and MITRE researchers describe an important advance in controlling spin quantum memories in photonic circuits. Their paper, “Selective and Scalable Control...
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High-fidelity parallel entangling gates in atom arrays
Recently, neutral-atom arrays have emerged as a promising platform for quantum computing. Atom arrays are highly flexible and reconfigurable, allowing coherent control over hundreds of qubits and...
View ArticleTechnique could improve the sensitivity of quantum sensing devices
In quantum sensing, atomic-scale quantum systems are used to measure electromagnetic fields, as well as properties like rotation, acceleration, and distance, far more precisely than classical sensors...
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