Two independent studies push semiconductor qubits towards practical scales
Semiconductor spin qubits are one of the most promising building blocks for future quantum computers, but turning them into a working, large-scale quantum computer has so far proven difficult.…
For now, two big questions remain open: how to connect qubits that are…
Diamond's newfound defect may tame vibrations that hinder quantum light sources
Researchers in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have discovered a new type of quantum light emitter in diamonds that could help overcome a number of challenges facing quantum technologies.
IBM and researchers from the University of Chicago announced a demonstration in quantum computing that meets the fundamental criteria for "quantum advantage"—the point where quantum computers can be confirmed to have outperformed classical computers on trusted computations.
Teen builds an award-winning virtual reality prototype thanks to free MIT courses
When Freesia Gaul discovered MIT Open Learning’s OpenCourseWare at just 14 years old, it opened up a world of learning far beyond what her classrooms could offer.…
Her parents had started a skiing company, and the seasonal work meant …
Growing up in small towns in Australia and Canada, she relied on the i…
Anything-goes “anyons” may be at the root of surprising quantum experiments
In the past year, two separate experiments in two different materials captured the same confounding scenario: the coexistence of superconductivity and magnetism.…
Scientists had assumed that these two quantum states are mutually excl…
Now, theoretical physicists at MIT have an explanation for how this Je…
Quantum fluid reveals hidden states that can be switched with a magnetic field
Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) are often described as a "fifth state of matter": a quantum state in which many particles lose their individual identities and behave as one collective object.…
For more than 60 years, researchers have sought to create such condens…
This has been difficult to realize in controllable semiconductor devic…
Molecular orbitals imaged in 3D, opening path to femtosecond videos
One of the most famous and intriguing results of quantum mechanics is the finding that fundamental particles, such as electrons, cannot be pinned down to one single location.…
Instead, a particle is described by its "wavefunction," which allows r…
In particular, the electron wavefunctions within a molecule, known as …
Sixteen new START.nano companies are developing hard-tech solutions with the support of MIT.nano
MIT.nano has announced that 16 startups became active participants in its START.nano program in 2025, more than doubling the number of new companies from the previous year.…
Aimed at speeding the transition of hard-tech innovation to market, ST…
nano supports new ventures through the discounted use of MIT.
New chip can protect wireless biomedical devices from quantum attacks
As quantum computers advance, they are expected to be able to break tried-and-true security schemes that currently keep most sensitive data secure from attackers.…
Scientists and policymakers are working to design and implement post-q…
MIT researchers have developed an ultra-efficient microchip that can b…
Air-stable, ultrathin superconductors developed for more scalable quantum devices
Super-thin superconducting materials, which are only one or a few atoms thick, have unique properties scientists can leverage to produce more compact, scalable, and efficient quantum devices.…
But these fragile materials degrade so rapidly in air that they are di…
Two-qubit entangling gate flags its own errors as detectable photon losses
Quantum errors are a normal part of quantum computing because fragile physical qubits (the tiny components storing data) can easily break down because of environmental noise, like heat, stray signals or microscopic vibrations.…
Typical fixes involve vast amounts of extra hardware qubits, which mak…
X(2370) emerges as glueball-dominated particle in collider experiments
At the International Conference on High Energy Physics in Brazil, the BESIII Collaboration report that, after 15 years of sustained research, it identified the dominant constituent of the X(2370) as a pseudoscalar glueball with spin-parity quantum numbers of 0⁻⁺.