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🥳🎉 Congrats to the 2025 Turing Award winner for quantum information science! Too bad the real mystery here is how anyone will read about it when the website is locked tighter than a quantum computer's error correction. 🔒🔍👩‍💻
https://awards.acm.org/about/2025-turing #TuringAward #QuantumScience #ErrorCorrection #TechNews #Celebration #HackerNews #ngated

Charles H. Bennett and Gilles Brassard are the recipients of the 2025 ACM A.M. Turing Award for their essential role in establishing the foundations of quantum information science and transforming secure communication and computing

Bennett, an American physicist at IBM Research, and Brassard, a Canadian computer scientist at the Université de Montréal, are widely recognized as founders of quantum information science, a field at the intersection of physics and computer science that treats quantum mechanical phenomena not merely as properties of matter, but as resources for processing and transmitting information. The ACM A.M. Turing Award, often referred to as the “Nobel Prize in Computing,” carries a $1 million prize with financial support provided by Google, Inc. The award is named for Alan M. Turing, the British mathematician who articulated the mathematical foundations of computing.

Scientific Frontline 1d ago

A supersolid is an exotic #quantum state of matter that simultaneously exhibits the ordered, crystal-like spatial structure of a solid and the frictionless flow of a superfluid. Researchers have successfully generated this state at room temperature by engineering light-matter interactions within a nanoscale device.
#QuantumScience #MaterialScience #Nanotechnology #Photonics #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/03/qs03172601.html

Scientists Create a New State of Matter at Room Temperature Using Light and Nanostructures

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have created a new and unusual state of matter

Scientific Frontline 1d ago

Researchers have developed a novel material design that enables #superconductivity to operate at significantly higher temperatures while remaining resilient against strong magnetic fields by physically altering the surface on which the superconducting material rests.
#MaterialScience #QuantumScience #Physics #Nanotechnology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/03/ms03172602.html

Superconductor advance could unlock ultra-energy-efficient electronics

Superconducting materials could play a crucial role in energy-efficient applications of the future.

Scientific Frontline Mar 9

Researchers have developed a method using engineered, randomized multipolar driving—or "targeted shaking"—to drastically slow down unwanted heating in superconducting #quantum processors, enabling the stabilization and observation of exotic quantum states.
#QuantumScience #Physics #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/03/qs03092601.html

Targeted Shaking Stabilizes Exotic Quantum States

Groundbreaking Research Findings in Quantum Simulation

Scientific Frontline Mar 7

A newly identified magnetic phase of matter found in the material cerium magnesium hexalluminate (CeMgAl11O19) that superficially mimics the properties of a #quantum spin liquid. While it appears disordered even at near-absolute zero, this lack of ordering stems from classical magnetic competition rather than quantum mechanical fluctuations.
#MaterialScience #QuantumScience #Physics #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/03/ms03072601.html

Material previously thought to be quantum is actually new, nonquantum state of matter

Rice researchers discover cerium magnesium hexalluminate not quantum despite displaying characteristics of quantum spin liquid state

Scientific Frontline Mar 5

Scientists synthesized and characterized a single molecule with a half-Möbius electronic topology, representing the first experimental observation of electrons traveling through a structure in a previously unknown corkscrew-like pattern.
#ComputationalChemistry #QuantumScience #SolidStatePhysics #Physics #MolecularScience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/03/phy03052601.html

Researchers create a never-before-seen molecule and prove its exotic nature with quantum computing

For quantum computing, it is a concrete demonstration of a quantum simulation doing what it was designed to do

Scientific Frontline Mar 3

A newly discovered mathematical formula in quantum physics that precisely quantifies the fundamental trade-off between the disturbance caused by an initial quantum measurement and the statistical correlation of a subsequent measurement.
#QuantumScience #Physics #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/03/qs03032601.html

A new “uncertainty relation” for quantum measurement errors

One of the most striking features of quantum physics is that certain properties cannot be measured at the same time.

MPI for the Science of Light Feb 27

Closing ceremony of the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (#IYQ2025)

In February, the IYQ concluded with a ceremony. The global initiative highlighted the impact of #QuantumScience and technology, marking 100 years since the foundations of #quantum mechanics were established.

Gerd Leuchs, Emeritus Director at MPL, attended the ceremony. He is a long-standing member of the international #optics and #photonics community.

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https://mpl.mpg.de/news/article/gerd-leuchs-at-the-closing-ceremony-of-the-international-year-of-quantum-science-and-technology

Scientific Frontline Feb 24

A type of quantum logic gate that processes information using qudits—particles capable of existing in four or more quantum states simultaneously—rather than traditional binary qubits. This advancement exponentially expands computational capacity by encoding multiple dimensions of data into a single photon pair.
#QuantumScience #Physics #Photonics #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/02/qs02242601.html

Quantum computers go high-dimensional

Until now, quantum-computing experiments with photons have often been carried out by relying on the polarization of photons

Scientific Frontline Feb 24

An international research team successfully observed a quantized transverse Hall drift of light for the first time, demonstrating that photons can drift in perfectly defined, universal steps analogous to electrons subjected to intense magnetic fields.
#QuantumScience #Photonics #Physics #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/02/phy02242602.html

A luminous breakthrough for quantum photonics

This is known as the quantum Hall effect, a discovery so important it led to three Nobel Prizes in Physics: in 1985