Improving the reliability of circuits for quantum computers
Quantum computers could someday solve pressing problems that are too convoluted for classical computers, such as modeling complex molecular interactions to streamline drug discovery and materials development.…
But to build a superconducting quantum computer that is large and resi…
To help scientists design more predictable circuits, researchers from …
Their analysis revealed the source of these distortions, known as seco…
Researchers “reprogram” materials by quickly rearranging their atoms
It’s been 37 years since scientists first demonstrated the ability to move single atoms, suggesting the possibility of designing materials atom by atom to customize their properties.…
Today there are several techniques that allow researchers to move indi…
But existing techniques can only move atoms across the surface of mate…
Most also require painstakingly slow processes and high-vacuum, ultrac…
Media Advisory: MIT to establish regional quantum hub
MIT and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts announced plans to establish the Quantum Systems Laboratory (QSL) at MIT, which will be open to researchers across the region.…
With the new funding from the state, which will match federal funding …
The QSL will host specialized facilities that will enable Massachusett…
Quantum technologies promise transformative changes in fields from com…
New laboratory at MIT aims to advance quantum research for the nation
On May 28, MIT President Sally Kornbluth and Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey announced plans for a new laboratory to accelerate the development of next-generation quantum technologies that will enable Massachusetts to remain a national hub for quantum innovation.…
Speaking at the Samberg Conference Center on campus, the leaders intro…
“Quantum technologies have the potential to drive transformative chang…
“Greater Boston has the greatest concentration of quantum talent of an…
New quantum microscopy trick quadruples microscope resolution
Three years after a team of Caltech scientists showed that pairs of entangled photons could double the resolution of a light microscope, the same lab has figured out a way to double down on that improvement.…
They have now achieved a fourfold resolution boost compared to a class…
Crossing into a mirror world: Particles turn to wisps of fog, and the magnetic monopole paradox dissolves
In Goethe's ballad "Erlkönig," immortalized in Schubert's fevered 1815 setting, a dying boy riding through the night sees a spectral king beckoning from the darkness.…
His father calms him: "Mein Sohn, es ist ein Nebelstreif"—my son, it i…
In the poem, the father's reassurance proves tragically wrong.
In the quantum world, however, his words acquire an uncanny new meaning.
Discovery of 'slow' electrons in 2D material could lead to new memory device
Over the last decade, researchers have developed two-dimensional materials with fascinating quantum effects that could be harnessed for next-generation technologies.
How to create distinguishable states for quantum systems
Researchers around the world are racing to develop new quantum-based systems for sensing, communication, computing, and control that have the promise of outperforming traditional systems.…
Creating stable, measurable, distinguishable quantum states, which wou…
Quantum states possess unique properties that can be exploited for dev…
Two key properties, stability and distinguishability, are hard to achi…
MIT in the media: For the future of tech, "Massachusetts can absolutely lead"
On June 9, The Boston Globe released its 2026 “Tech Power Players” list, recognizing 50 influential local leaders in technology and business across Massachusetts.…
The list includes eight MIT affiliates including President Sally Kornb…
MIT in the media: Exploring how curiosity-driven science is an essential ingredient in America’s success
Over the past 80 years, America’s bold, sustained investment in scientific research, and the discoveries, ideas and innovations that flowed from it made America a world leader.…
The nation’s scientific leadership has been essential to our shared pr…
On June 16, Scientific American released a special section, “The Young…
Among the section’s profiles are many MIT faculty, students, and alumn…
New optical method reveals internal dynamics of elusive Wigner crystals
Researchers at the University of Basel and the Technical University of Munich have developed a new method to reveal the collective motion of electrons in one of the most elusive states of matter: the Wigner crystal.…
Using light, the physicists were able to uncover previously inaccessib…
When certain atoms are irradiated with laser light, they can produce a very different kind of laser light: laser pulses with extremely high frequencies in the X-ray range.…
These laser pulses, which helped achieve record-breaking results at TU…
New CERN measurement challenges conventional models of how gluons behave inside atomic nuclei
A University of Kansas physicist played a leading role in a CERN study showing that two rival explanations for how gluons behave inside atomic nuclei can now be experimentally distinguished.