Artist's depiction of Faraon Group device. Credit: Ella Maru Studio Optical quantum memories are essential elements in quantum networks for long distance distribution of quantum entanglement. Recent work by the Faraon group led to development of a computer chip with nanoscale optical quantum memory. "This technology not only leads to extreme miniaturization of [...]
A new Caltech study, by Fernando Brandão and collaborators, demonstates that quantum computing could be applied to speed up solutions to "semidefinite programs" a class of optimization problems."One of the goals of quantum computing is to speed up computations to levels that far exceed what classical computers can do," says Fernando Brandão, the Bren Professor [...]
Spiros Michalakis joined a July Comic Con panel to discuss the science of the animated show, Rick and Morty. Moderated by Kyle Hill, Science Editor of Nerdist, the panel featured the show's creators Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland, with writer Mike McMahan. Not only does [Rick and Morty] play around with what's possible in animation, [...]
Schematic of many-body-localized (MBL) engine. Figure 1 from the paper. Authors Nicole Yunger Halpern, Christopher White, IQIM/Burke Institute alum Sarang Gopalakrishnan and Gil Refael released a new paper in which they designed an engine formed from a many-body localized system. The project combines quantum many-body physics with quantum thermodynamic, and features two branches [...]
Recent work by Jason Alicea, IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar alum Torsten Karzig and collaborators is featured as a Physics Viewpoint: A Roadmap for a Scalable Topological Quantum Computer. “ … the race to build a quantum computer has many competitors pursuing a variety of approaches, some of which appear to be on the verge of creating [...]
Google Scholar released a new collection of Classic Papers “a collection of highly-cited papers in their area of research that have stood the test of time.” They include the ten most-cited articles published ten years earlier over a broad range of research topics, such as Life Sciences & Earth Sciences, Business, Economics & Management, Physics [...]
A new paper by Ning Bao, DuBridge Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics, and Graduate Student, Nicole Yunger Halpern has been selected as a Physical Review A Editor's selection. In Quantum voting and violation of Arrow's impossibility theorem [a] quantum voting system is proposed in the tradition of quantum game theory. It is shown that this [...]
In a recent interview with Inverse Entertainment Spiros Michalakis, describes his input as a consultant on the Marvel Cinematic Universe series of films including Ant Man, Dr. Strange and Captain Marvel. He introduced the Marvel team to the idea of a quantum realm “This is a place where the nature of reality changes around you. [...]
John Preskill and former IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar, Fernando Pastawski present new work in Code Properties from Holographic Geometries Phys. Rev. X 7, 021022 (2017). An overview is presented in the paper's Popular Summary: This figure illustrates uberholography for the case of a two-dimensional hyperbolic bulk geometry. The inner logical boundary is contained inside the [...]
John Preskill is presenting the third public lecture in the Frontiers of Physics series at the University of Washington. His talk, Quantum Computing and the Entanglement Frontier, will be available via streaming video beginning at 7:30 pm on Thursday, May 11. It will also be available for viewing after the talk. Other talks in the [...]