In the News
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At the Chicago Quantum Exchange in 2020: A year in review
While most of the news in 2020 was dominated by the pandemic and politics, there was also a significant amount of excitement in the quantum field. Read More
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Chicago Quantum Summit highlights new U.S. quantum centers, economic opportunities
From the Chicago Quantum Exchange: In a year where the U.S. federal government invested $700 million in quantum information science research centers and institutes, it’s clear that quantum science is on the cusp of a revolution. Read More
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Gov. J.B. Pritzker speaks at UChicago event about impact of quantum research
From the University of Chicago: In a fireside chat during last week’s 2020 Chicago Quantum Summit, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker said famed Chicago architect Daniel Burnham’s adage to “make no little plans” is a fitting vision for the state of Illinois and the city of Chicago to live up to when it comes to building the quantum internet. Read More
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Chicago Quantum Exchange welcomes six new partners focused on advancing research, building a quantum economy
From the Chicago Quantum Exchange: The Chicago Quantum Exchange, a growing intellectual hub for the research and development of quantum technology, has added to its community six new partners in technology, finance, manufacturing, and consulting that are working to bring about and primed to take advantage of the coming quantum revolution. Read More
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UChicago scientists control single subatomic quantum memories in semiconductors
From the University of Chicago: Breakthrough holds major implications for the future of the quantum internet. Read More
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NSF and DOE support research priorities with spate of new center awards
From the American Institute of Physics: The Department of Energy and National Science Foundation are investing over $1 billion in dozens of new research centers designed to foster collaborative research aligned with top U.S. R&D priorities. Read More
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White House sets steering panel for Quantum Economic Development Consortium
The White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced members of the steering committee for the Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C), a group designed to collaborate on research, standards, and workforce initiatives in quantum information science (QIS). Read More
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Latest News Big Brains podcast: Why the quantum internet could change everything
From the University of Chicago: A world-renowned scientist explores quantum technology and why the future of quantum may be in Chicago. Read More
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America's quantum future runs through Chicago
From Crain's Chicago Business: A new federal push promises to make the Windy City an essential hub and center of the nation’s advancing quantum capabilities. Read More
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Argonne, Fermilab at forefront of ‘transformational’ quantum research
From WTTW: Quantum technology is expected to transform our world – from the creation of ultra-fast and powerful quantum computers, to sensors capable of detecting the movement of a single atom, to communication networks that can’t be hacked. 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