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Fundamental Equation for Superconducting Quantum Bits Revised

Fundamental Equation for Superconducting Quantum Bits Revised

Fundamental Equation for Superconducting Quantum Bits Revised   Quantum bits can be described more precisely with the help of newly discovered harmonics as a team of 30 researchers reports in Nature Physics.   Researchers at the University of Cologne, in a...

Conference key agreement in a quantum network

Conference key agreement in a quantum network

ML4Q associated member and Independence Grant Fellow, Frederico Grasselli (Bruss group, HHU Düsseldorf) co-authored a paper which was published a few days ago in npj Quantum Information. The publication is a collaboration with Alexander Pickston, Joseph Ho,...

Joint work on chaos aspects of quantum computers continues

Joint work on chaos aspects of quantum computers continues

We reported one year ago about the successful research conducted in the ML4Q groups of Simon Trebst, Alex Altland and David DiVincenzo which analyzed cutting edge device structures to demonstrate that some of them are indeed operating dangerously close to a threshold...

Exciting bilayer graphene characteristics published in Nature

Exciting bilayer graphene characteristics published in Nature

Near perfect particle-hole symmetry in graphene quantum dots   Researchers at RWTH Aachen University and Forschungszentrum Jülich have uncovered important characteristics of double quantum dots in bilayer graphene, an increasingly promising material for possible...

Cross-Site Paper on Statistical Majorana Bound State Spectroscopy

Cross-Site Paper on Statistical Majorana Bound State Spectroscopy

Cross-Site Paper on Statistical Majorana Bound State Spectroscopy   The groups of Fabian Hassler (RWTH) and Reinhold Egger (HHU Düsseldorf) have been cooperating on several projects to theoretically investigate signatures of Majorana zero modes that are...

Quantum computing breakthrough in error correction

Quantum computing breakthrough in error correction

Quantum computing breakthrough in error correction Researchers at ETH Zurich, supported by the Theoretical Quantum Technology Group at RWTH Aachen and Forschungszentrum Jülich as well as by colleagues in Canada, have succeeded, for the first time, in quickly and...

Quantum one-way street in topological insulator nanowires

Quantum one-way street in topological insulator nanowires

Quantum one-way street in topological insulator nanowires Very thin wires made of a topological insulator could enable highly stable qubits, the building blocks of future quantum computers. Scientists see a new result in topological insulator devices as an important...

First Hybrid Quantum Bit Based on Topological Insulators

First Hybrid Quantum Bit Based on Topological Insulators

First Hybrid Quantum Bit Based on Topological Insulators   Scientists at Forschungszentrum Jülich take an important step on the path towards topological quantum computers     With their superior properties, topological qubits could help achieve a...

2D materials for next generation computing

2D materials for next generation computing

In a compact comment published in Nature Communications, Max Lemme, Christoph Stampfer and colleagues outline the most promising fields of applications of two-dimensional (2D) materials, as well as the challenges that still need to be solved to see the appearance of...