Scientists, including Johannes Knolle and Hongzheng Zhao, found a way to prevent heating in periodically shaken #quantumsystems, creating stable and long-lived exotic states—a key step for future #quantumtechnologies: http://go.tum.de/390724

#quantumsimulation

📷R. Reich

Targeted Shaking Stabilizes Exotic Quantum States

Exotic quantum states are highly sought after because they store and process information in fundamentally different ways than classical systems. To…

Breakthrough on the path to optical nuclear clocks: laser-based excitation of Thorium-229 in non-transparent material / Researchers from Los Angeles, Munich, and Mainz open new avenues for nucleus-based quantum technologies 👉 https://www.phmi.uni-mainz.de/en/2025/12/13/https-www-blogs-uni-mainz-de-fb08-pmc-breakthrough-on-the-path-to-optical-nuclear-clocks-laser-based-excitation-of-thorium-229-in-non-transparent-material/

#Physics #QuantumTechnologies #NuclearClocks

Breakthrough on the path to optical nuclear clocks: Laser-based excitation of Thorium-229 in non-transparent material – FB 08

US Dept. of Energy (DoE) recently re-up'd a $625M investment to support the five National QIS Research Centers. These centers will now expand to include collaborations with over 50 academic institutions and 18 industry partners. The goal is to overcome key challenges in quantum computing, scale systems, and apply quantum technologies to real-world scientific problems.

Center renewals include: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Funds will be provided over the next five years, with an initial disbursement of $125M in Fiscal Year 2025 funding, contingent on congressional appropriations. https://www.energy.gov/articles/energy-department-announces-625-million-advance-next-phase-national-quantum-information #USDoE #Quantum #QuantumComputing #QuantumTechnologies #DepartmentofEnergy #USGov #QIS #Funding

(Having never paid attention to anything ever before, I cannot tell if Peter Knight is absolutely full of nonsensical shit.)

Peter Knight on quantum technologies

There are problems and tasks so hard and complicated that it would take today’s most powerful supercomputers millions of years to crack them. But in the next decade, we may well have quantum computers which could solve such problems in seconds.

Professor Sir Peter Knight is a British pioneer in the realms of quantum optics and quantum information science. During his three decades as a researcher at Imperial College London, he has advanced our understanding of the physics which underpins how quantum computers work.

Quantum optics was a new field of physics at the start of Peter Knight’s career in the early 1970s and he tells Jim Al-Khalili about the excitement and opportunities for a young scientist at the birth of a new scientific discipline. He also talks about the UK National Quantum Technologies Programme. Since his retirement in 2010, Peter Knight has been the driving force behind this £1 billion government-funded endeavour which has positioned the UK as a world leader in the development and commercialisation of quantum computing and other revolutionary quantum inventions.

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BBC Radio 4 - The Life Scientific, Peter Knight on quantum technologies

Peter Knight on quantum computing and the strange physics of light.

BBC
Scientists just found a hidden quantum geometry that warps electrons

A hidden quantum geometry that distorts electron paths has finally been observed in real materials. This “quantum metric,” once thought purely theoretical, may revolutionize electronics, superconductivity, and ultrafast devices.

ScienceDaily
Joint #CallForProposals in the QuantERA programme: The DFG, together with other international funding organisations, will finance multilateral and transnational projects in #QuantumTechnologies.
Topics and deadline:
https://fcld.ly/ifdw72
QuantERA Call 2025

A Simple Shift in Light Control Could Revolutionize Quantum Computing

A new light-based method lets tiny quantum dots release perfectly controlled photons, opening doors to faster and cheaper quantum technology.

SciTechDaily