A new crop of quantum technologies is set to make waves in the commercial world. Get up to speed on what they are and what impact they will have in the future.
Mapping the commercial landscape for quantum technologies
As devices begin to move out of physics labs and into the marketplace, patent attorney Andrew Fearnside offers a tour of the developing commercial scene
Becoming a quantum entrepreneur
Grégoire Ribordy, co-founder of the pioneering quantum-key-distribution firm ID Quantique, shares his company's "start-up story"
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Silicon device reads and writes quantum information
Technology could be scaled-up to create quantum-computer chips
Google aims for quantum supremacy
As the tech giant reveals a 72-qubit quantum processor, researchers are creating the first quantum computer games
Encrypted quantum keys sent a record-breaking 421 km in optical fibre
Long-distance transmission rate is boosted by a factor of 100
Fast photon source lights up quantum technologies
An on-chip system exploits the Purcell effect to deliver rapid pulses of single photons
Magnetic model simulated in 3D by D-Wave quantum processor
Transverse field Ising model run on superconducting qubits
Silicon qubits show promise for quantum computers
Two new breakthroughs could help in the development of large-scale spin-based processors in the future
Cloud quantum computing calculates nuclear binding energy
Quantum simulations done remotely on systems at Rigetti and IBM
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Physicists take snapshots of quantum measurement
Ideal process leaves some superposition states intact
The science of sand and snow, and a novel take on the double-slit experiment
The podcast team discusses skiing holidays, how sand dunes communicate and a new variant of the classic Young's double-slit experiments
Quantum secrets can be teleported and shared between multiple senders and receivers
Breakthrough scheme might aid the development of networked quantum computers
Quantum computing from the ground up
Quantum-ion entrepreneur Chris Monroe on his research, career and starting his own quantum computing firm
Quantum diffusion of heavy defects defies Arrhenius’ law
“Massively heavy” atoms can move quantum mechanically within a crystalline material at cryogenic temperatures – a surprising result that contradicts currently-held notions
Double slits with single atoms
Andrew Murray describes a new variant of the classic Young's double-slit experiments, but this time using photoelectrons emitted via two different paths from rubidium atoms ...
Towards a quantum advantage
Leonie Mueck, Carmen Palacios-Berraquero and Divya M Persaud argue that the term “quantum supremacy” should be replaced
Could legacy fibre networks host the global quantum Internet?
Researchers demonstrate that entangled photons can be transported across long distances in conventional single-mode optical fibre
Glass sphere is cooled to its motional quantum ground state
Quantum gravity and quantum fundamentals could be probed using new technique
Quantum calorimeter is as precise as nature allows
The nanoscale thermometer observes the fundamental fluctuations in a sample’s electron temperature, showing how sensitive such a device can be
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