University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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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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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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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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Researchers take a step toward novel quantum simulators
From SLAC News: Researchers at Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, including Q-NEXT's David Goldhaber-Gordon, take a step toward novel quantum simulator that could help answer questions about certain kinds of superconductors and other unusual states of matter. Read More
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Quantum information science and engineering opportunities for undergraduate students: My experience as an OQI fellow
From Medium: Open Quantum Initiative undergraduate fellow Ariadna Fernandez writes about her summer experience at the University of Chicago, where she used both a classical-quantum algorithm and a quantum computer simulator to calculate molecular system energies. Read More
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Quantum computers could solve countless problems — and create a lot of new ones
From Time: Q-NEXT collaborator of Jay Lowell is quoted in this Time cover story on the frontier that is quantum computing. Read More
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Quantum Computing Cybersecurity bill signed into law
From FEDweek: President Biden has signed into law HR-7535, the Quantum Computing Cybersecurity Preparedness Act, to move federal agencies toward encryption for their IT systems strong enough to resist attacks from quantum computers developed in the future. Read More
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New algorithm closes quantum supremacy window
From Quanta Magazine: Q-NEXT collaborator Bill Fefferman is quoted in this piece on a new result related to random circuit sampling. The popular technique for showing the power of quantum computers doesn’t appear scale up if errors go unchecked. Read More