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Using quantum data to create an unhackable Internet: ‘We’re getting close,’ University of Chicago expert leading project says
From the Chicago Sun-Times: University of Chicago scientists are working on creating what once might have seemed like science fiction: an unhackable internet. The Chicago quantum network project involves a test bed of 124 miles of underground fiber-optic cable that links the university with Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont and Fermilab in Batavia. Read More
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Danna Freedman receives 2022 MacArthur Fellowship
From MIT News: Danna Freedman, the F.G. Keyes Professor of Chemistry at MIT and a Q-NEXT member, has been named a recipient of a 2022 MacArthur Fellowship. Freedman designs novel molecules that could be used for quantum sensing and communication. Read More
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The University of Chicago is working on an ‘unhackable’ internet
From WBEZ Chicago: University of Chicago scientists are developing a so-called quantum internet, a far more secure version of the web, that could make hacking impossible. Read More
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Chicago scientists are testing an unhackable quantum internet in their basement closet
From The Washington Post: A 124-mile fiber-optic network runs from the University of Chicago on Chicago’s South Side to two federally funded labs in the western suburbs that are collaborating on the research — Argonne National Laboratory and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. The team behind the network is using photons to dispatch encryption keys through the network, to see how well they travel through fibers that pass under highways, bridges and toll booths. Read More
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Pritzker Molecular Engineering professors David Awschalom and Liang Jiang awarded $1 million for development of South Korea-U.S. quantum center
From the University of Chicago: The National Research Foundation of South Korea has awarded two professors from the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering $1 million to co-lead the creation of The Center for Quantum Error Correction, a South Korea-U.S. joint research center dedicated to quantum error correction. Q-NEXT Director David Awschalom and collaborator Liang Jiang will serve as co-principal investigators for the center. Read More
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Quantum physics titans win Breakthrough Prize
From Scientific American: This year’s Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics honors four pioneers who combined math, computer science and physics to do “foundational work in the field of quantum information.” The prize is shared between Charles Bennett of IBM, Gilles Brassard of the University of Montreal, David Deutsch of the University of Oxford and Peter Shor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Read More
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Prestigious New Horizons in Physics Prize awarded to UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering faculty Hannes Bernien
From the University of Chicago: Given to promising early-career researchers who have produced significant work, Q-NEXT collaborator Bernien and his colleagues are being recognized for developing optical tweezer arrays able to control individual atoms for use in quantum information science, metrology, and molecular physics. Read More
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Scientists turn a nanowire with exotic currents into a probe for magnetism
From UIUC: A team of researchers led by Vidya Madhavan at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign added a twist to their scanning tunneling microscope by replacing the tip with a nanowire made from an exotic material. They use the nanowire to image magnetic features in an approach that has potential advantages compared to other methods. The team plans to modify the nanowire to see if it can reveal even more material features or, for example, detect particles called Majorana fermions, which have long been proposed as the basis for novel quantum computing devices. Read More
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Building better quantum sensors
From the University of Chicago: Researchers at the University of Chicago led by Aashish Clark have developed a method to optimize a class of quantum sensors. The approach, published in PRX Quantum, takes advantage of the way defects in diamonds or semiconductors behave like qubits. Read More
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Slimmed-down terminal transmits quantum keys from space
From Physics World: Q-NEXT member Paul Kwiat of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign comments on quantum key distribution in this piece on the successful transmission of quantum keys between a satellite and four ground stations by Hefei National Laboratory and the University of Science and Technology of China. Read More
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Feng Pan sculpts ultrathin materials for quantum information research
The Stanford University postdoctoral researcher develops high-tech materials to deliver photon packages of quantum information. Read More
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New quantum sensing technique reveals magnetic connections
A research team supported by the Q-NEXT quantum research center demonstrates a new way to use quantum sensors to tease out relationships between microscopic magnetic fields. Read More
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Q-NEXT releases roadmap for the development of quantum information technologies
The roadmap serves as a guide for research and development in quantum interconnects, devices that link and distribute quantum information between systems and across distances to enable quantum computing, communications and sensing. Read More
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Quantum repeaters and their role in information technology
If we want quantum computers to reach their full potential, we’ll need complex networks of the machines strung together with quantum repeaters. Read More
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The entanglement advantage
Sensing networks achieve greater precision through quantum entanglement: Researchers show how to create quantum-entangled networks of atomic clocks and accelerometers — and they demonstrate the setup’s superior, high-precision performance. Read More