Researchers “reprogram” materials by quickly rearranging their atoms
Zach Winn | MIT News
A new method for precisely moving columns of individual atoms within a material could give rise to exotic quantum properties.
Improving the reliability of circuits for quantum computers
Adam Zewe | MIT News
A new technique helps scientists measure a phenomenon that can cause quantum circuits to perform differently than expected, increasing the error in computations.
Electrons in Moiré Crystals Explore Higher-dimensional Quantum Worlds
Department of Physics
MIT physicists have discovered 3D “moiré crystals” that simulate four-dimensional quantum materials to a T.
“Near-misses” in Particle Accelerators can Illuminate New Physics, Study finds
Jennifer Chu | MIT News
Physicists discovered new properties of the strong force by analyzing what happens when light-speed particles skim by each other.
Discovering the Joy of Future-forward Electrical Engineering
Jane Halpern | Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
One year in, MIT’s hands-on 6-5 (Electrical Engineering With Computing) degree program is already one of the most popular majors among first-year students.
Efficient cooling method could enable chip-based trapped-ion quantum computers
Adam Zewe | MIT News
New technique could improve the scalability of trapped-ion quantum computers, an essential step toward making them practically useful.
Theory-Guided Strategy Expands the Scope of Measurable Quantum Interactions
Adam Zewe | MIT News
An oft-ignored effect can be used to probe an important property of semiconductors, a new study finds.
Closing in on Superconducting Semiconductors
Julianna Mullen | Plasma Science and Fusion Center
Plasma Science and Fusion Center researchers created a superconducting circuit that could one day replace semiconductor components in quantum and high-performance computing systems.
MIT Engineers Advance Toward a Fault-tolerant Quantum Computer
Adam Zewe | MIT News
Researchers achieved a type of coupling between artificial atoms and photons that could enable readout and processing of quantum information in a few nanoseconds.
Device enables direct communication among multiple quantum processors
Adam Zewe | MIT News
MIT researchers developed a photon-shuttling “interconnect” that can facilitate remote entanglement, a key step toward a practical quantum computer.