Devices that can confine individual electrons are potential building blocks for quantum information systems. But the electrons must be protected from external disturbances. RIKEN researchers have now ...

In order to build the computers and devices of tomorrow, we have to understand how they use energy today. That's harder than ...

Precise measurements show that future quantum computers may need to correct for errors caused by interference between neighboring quantum dots.

Researchers have developed a highly sensitive light-based sensor that can detect extremely low concentrations of cancer biomarkers in the blood. The new technology could one day make it possible to ...

Researchers have developed a highly sensitive light-based sensor that can detect extremely low concentrations of cancer ...

A long-standing bottleneck in photonic quantum technology may finally be easing. Researchers in Germany ...

The race to build reliable quantum computers is fraught with obstacles, and one of the most difficult to overcome is related ...

Quantum dots (QDs) are semiconductor nanocrystals that exhibit unique optical characteristics due to quantum confinement effects, which result in discrete electronic states and size-tunable emission ...

Quantum physics may sound abstract, but Ph.D. candidates Kirsten Kanneworff and David Dechant show that quantum research can also be very concrete. Together, they are investigating how quantum ...

The study shows that in quantum devices, reading a clock consumes far more energy than running it. This insight will help ...