In the News
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JPMorgan uses quantum computing to summarize documents
From Enter Quantum: JPMorgan Chase researchers have successfully demonstrated using quantum algorithms to summarize documents using natural language processing. Read More
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Nadya Mason named a ‘Researcher to Know’
From the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: The experimental physicist, diversity advocate, and Beckman Institute director makes the Illinois Science & Technology Coalition’s list of Researchers to Know in 2022 for her “groundbreaking research driving innovation in the state.” Read More
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Lloyd Rees Lecture and Geoffrey Frew Fellowship announced
The Australian Academy of Science has announced that Jelena Vuckovic of Stanford University has been awarded the 2023 Geoffrey Frew Fellowship, which is awarded to distinguished overseas scientists to participate in the Australian Spectroscopy Conferences and to visit scientific centers in Australia. Read More
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PASQAL and University of Chicago announce neutral atoms quantum computing research collaboration agreement
University of Chicago's Hannes Bernien forms a new collaboration with PASQAL to advance neutral-atom quantum computing by developing new techniques for enabling high-fidelity qubit control. Read More
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DoD Awards $59 million in University Research Equipment Awards
University of Chicago’s Hannes Bernien is among the recipients of the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program Award. The award supports his research in individual qubit control for atom array processors. Read More
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The journey to building a true quantum computer
From Intel: Intel's James Clarke lays out Intel's path to building a full-stack commercial quantum system, including achievements and next steps. Read More
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Introducing Crain's 40 Under 40 class of 2022
From Crain's Chicago Business: Pranav Gokhale, vice president of quantum software at ColdQuanta, makes Crain's Chicago Business's 40 Under 40 list, helpling build software that can be used to write quantum programs in any type of source language, which could speed up the development of quantum applications. Read More
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IQUIST-NRIK collaboration to build the first quantum network with open-air links
From the Illinois Quantum Information Science and Technology Center: Q-NEXT research lead Paul Kwiat has joined an initiative led by the National Research Institute of Korea in which researchers will construct a distributed quantum network connecting nodes separated by 20 kilometers. Read More
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Top Italian scientific foundation presents Giulia Galli with Lifetime Achievement Award
From the University of Chicago: The Italian Scientists and Scholars in North America Foundation has presented Giulia Galli, Liew Family Professor of Molecular Engineering and chemistry at the University of Chicago, with a Lifetime Achievement Award for her seminal contributions to the development of methods for the prediction of materials’ properties. Read More
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Colorado quantum startup ColdQuanta lands $110M Series B to usher in a new era of quantum computing
From Tech Startups: Quantum company ColdQuanta said it has raised $110 million in a Series B funding round to continue commercializing its product portfolio, including quantum computing, quantum algorithms and applications, atomic clocks, sensors, and components. Read More
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David Awschalom wins global Breakthrough of the Year award
David Awschalom, Q-NEXT Chief Science Officer and the Liew Family Professor of Quantum Engineering and Physics at the University of Chicago, received the prestigious Falling Walls Science Breakthrough of the Year in Physical Sciences for a pioneering body of work that broke the wall between quantum technology, molecules, and proteins. Read More
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Helium lifts new quantum computing concept
A team led by Jacob Covey, who is part of Q-NEXT and is an Associate Professor at the University of Chicago, laid out a new concept that could turn helium’s light weight into the next generation of quantum computers. The design relies on helium-3, an isotope with different quantum properties than the helium-4 used to cool MRI machines and fill party balloons. Once built, the computer could use high-powered lasers as “optical tweezers” to capture and control individual atoms of helium. Read More
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Researchers make materials that support quantum technology
Researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who are part of Q-NEXT are engineering material systems that support quantum technology. Chris Anderson and his team are developing materials for quantum transduction — the conversion of quantum information from one form to another. Elizabeth Goldschmidt, Daniel Shoemaker, and colleagues are developing quantum memory technology that stores quantum information for extended periods of time. Read More
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Silicon Chip Offers New Way to Probe Quantum Materials in Strong Magnetic Fields
Scientists have created a silicon chip that can detect the electrical behavior of very small materials by using very high-frequency waves. The chip is made only from silicon and other non-superconducting materials and still performs very well when cooled from room temperature down to about 4 Kelvin. Read More
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Making quantum bits ready to use again much sooner
Scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Intel have found that a simple electrical pulse can quickly push a quantum dot qubit out of a latched state and return it to its starting condition with very high reliability. Read More
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Q-NEXT-developed open-source software receives 2026 R&D 100 award
SeQUeNCe, a free, open-source software developed by Argonne scientists with Q-NEXT support, is one of seven Argonne projects that received a 2026 R&D 100 Award. The SeQUeNCe software lets researchers test how quantum networks might work before building them. Read More
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Researchers generate spontaneous magnons that synchronize with external signals
Researchers at Argonne and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign demonstrate a method for generating stable ripples in magnetic materials called magnons. The work opens avenues for information processing in microelectronics and quantum devices. Read More
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Uncovering the hidden disorder in silicon quantum computers
From the U.S. Department of Energy: Q-NEXT researchers map the variation in materials to the atom level to scale up silicon qubits Read More
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Color centers in high-purity diamond
Researchers mapped how electron irradiation makes defects inside diamond, finding that creating more vacancies does not always produce more NV centers. Too many vacancies can form unwanted defects. This result can inform advances in quantum sensing. Read More
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Containing multitudes: SLAC scientist collaborates to create scalable qubits
At SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Q-NEXT collaborator Shannon Harvey develops quantum dots — a mass-producible type of qubit. Driven by curiosity about nature and how things work, Harvey draws on her facility for working at the nanoscale. Read More