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A new class of highly efficient and scalable quantum low-density parity-check error correction codes, capable of performance approaching the theoretical hashing bound, has been developed by scientists ...

Redefining the repeating pattern in photonic crystals creates tightly confined pathways for light while preserving symmetry, offering a simple route to ultracompact and low loss light circuits.

The 2025 Nobel prize in physics has been awarded to John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis for their work on showing how quantum particles can mysteriously tunnel through matter, a process that ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an ...

New erbium molecular qubits work with telecom systems and silicon photonics, opening routes to quantum networks, sensors, and hybrid devices.

Researchers from the University of Arizona, working with an international team, have captured and controlled quantum uncertainty in real time using ultrafast pulses of light. Their discovery, ...

Researchers have discovered a method to surpass traditional thermodynamic limits in converting waste heat into electricity. Japanese researchers have discovered a way to overcome long-standing ...

Quantum versions of Bayes’ rule have been around for decades, but the approach through the minimum change principle had not been tried before. In the new work, a team led by Ge Bai, Francesco Buscemi ...