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Faculty wins DARPA award for quantum computing breakthrough
Chris Anderson of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has earned a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Young Faculty Award for his research on strontium titanate optical modulators. Read More
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Tian Zhong receives the 2025 Sturge Prize
From the University of Chicago: Tian Zhong is honored for his seminal contributions to the field of solid-state quantum nanophotonics. Read More
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UChicago Pritzker Molecular Engineering Dean receives 2025 Richtmyer Award
From the University of Chicago: The American Association of Physics Teachers has awarded UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering Dean Nadya the 2025 Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award, which “recognizes those who have made outstanding contributions to physics and their communication to physics educators.” Read More
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Giulia Galli wins Berni J. Alder CECAM prize
University of Chicago’s Giulia Galli wins the Berni J. Alder CECAM Prize, which recognizes exceptional contributions to the field of microscopic simulation of matter. Read More
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Andrew Cleland receives high honor for low-temperature physics
From University of Chicago: Andrew Cleland the University of Chicago has been named the winner of the 2025 Olli V. Lounasmaa Memorial Prize. Read More
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Giulia Galli wins Joseph O. Hirschfelder Prize in Theoretical Chemistry
From the University of Chicago Giulia Galli has been named the 2024-2025 Joseph O. Hirschfelder Awardee. The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Theoretical Chemistry Institute awards the yearly prize for exceptional work in the field of theoretical chemistry. Four Nobel Prize recipients are among the Hirschfelder Prize honorees. Read More
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Innovative phonon-based quantum computing research at UChicago Engineering gets a $3 million boost by the U.S. Department of Defense
From the University of Chicago: Q-NEXT collaborator Andrew Cleland has been named a 2024 Vannevar Bush faculty fellow, the U.S. Department of Defense’s flagship single-investigator award for basic research. Cleland will use the fellowship money to advance phonon-based quantum computing. Read More
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Choy will use an NSF CAREER award to create quantum-based navigation systems
From the University of Wisconsin–Madison: Q-NEXT collaborator Jennifer Choy of the University of Wisconsin–Madison is using her NSF CAREER award to develop quantum sensors that could supplement or supplant GPS. Read More
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Jelena Vučković appointed at MPQ as new external scientific member
From the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics: Q-NEXT collaborator and Stanford University Professor Jelena Vučković has been connected to the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics for years. She has now been appointed an external scientific member of the institute. Read More
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Hannes Bernien awarded the 2023 Klung Wilhelmy Science Prize for pioneering quantum work
From the University of Chicago: Q-NEXT collaborator Hannes Bernien of the University of Chicago has won the Klung Wilhelmy Science Prize in Physics for his pioneering early studies on defect centers in diamonds and work he is currently pursuing to develop quantum technology platforms based on Rydberg atoms. 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