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Researchers achieve quantum control of an oscillator using a Josephson circuit
Phys.org
December 4, 2019
A team of researchers from Princeton, Northwestern, and the University of Chicago have directly operated an oscillator using a stimulated Josephson nonlinearity.
Quantum technology comes of age
Science
November 22, 2019
CQE director David Awschalom comments on the state of quantum information science.
Bill Fefferman Blazes Theory Path for Future of Quantum Computing
University of Chicago
November 18, 2019
In a paper last year for Nature Physics, Fefferman and his co-authors gave some of the strongest evidence that “random circuit sampling” should be easy for quantum computers but almost impossibly hard for their classical counterparts.
Fermilab launches new institute for quantum science
Fermilab
November 18, 2019
The Fermilab Quantum Institute will bring all of the lab’s quantum science projects under one umbrella.
DOE awards Fermilab and partners $3.2 million for Illinois quantum network
Fermilab
November 13, 2019
The funding will be used to develop designs for transparent optical quantum networks and demonstrate their operation in the greater Chicago area.
This is the golden age of innovation
The Hill
November 5, 2019
In his op-ed, DOE Under Secretary for Science Paul Dabbar mentions quantum projects in Chicago.
Mark Saffman wins innovation award
UW-Madison
November 5, 2019
Saffman won the award from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation for his simplified optical hardware for quantum computing.
Chicago Quantum Summit hosts international researchers, industry members
As quantum communication, sensing, and computation continue to transition from idea to reality, the second Chicago Quantum Summit at the University of Chicago gathered together more than 120 scientists, engineers, and members of industry from around the world.
Google Claims to Have Achieved ‘Quantum Supremacy’
WTTW – Chicago Tonight
October 29, 2019
CQE Director David Awschalom discusses Google’s quantum supremacy claim, the potential of quantum technology and the Chicago Quantum Exchange on WTTW’s Chicago Tonight.
Hands-on with Google’s quantum computer
Scientific American
October 29, 2019
Prof. David Awschalom comments on Google’s quantum announcement.
Chicago Quantum Exchange announces first international partners
Leading research organizations in Europe and Australia have joined the Chicago Quantum Exchange as its first international members, creating global partnerships that are essential to new breakthroughs in quantum science and engineering.
UW–Madison physicist awarded Packard Fellowship
University of Wisconsin-Madison
October 16, 2019
Shimon Kolkowitz, a University of Wisconsin–Madison assistant professor of physics, has been selected as one of 22 members of the 2019 class of Packard Fellows for Science and Engineering.
Researchers demonstrate quantum teleportation using a chemical reaction
Northwestern University
October 16, 2019
A team of Northwestern researchers is the first to document the role chemistry will play in next generation computing and communication.
Chicago Quantum Summit to gather international experts
Industry and academic leaders from US, Australia, Canada, UK to share research, discuss workforce development and build toward a global quantum alliance Top experts in quantum technology from around the globe will gather at the University of Chicago on Oct. 25 to...
WQI’S Wu Awarded Grant to Advance Quantum Computing Machine Learning
University of Wisconsin-Madison
October 3, 2019
The US Department of Energy recently announced the funding of another set of quantum science-driven research proposals, including that of Sau Lan Wu, Enrico Fermi professor of physics and Vilas Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Next-generation single-photon source for quantum information science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
October 4, 2019
University of Illinois Physics Professor Paul Kwiat and his former postdoctoral researcher Fumihiro Kaneda (now an assistant professor at Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences at Tohoku University) have built what Kwiat believes is “the world’s most efficient single-photon source.”
Argonne receives more than $1 million for quantum information science
Argonne National Laboratory
October 2, 2019
The new grants specifically award projects in the areas of high energy physics and fusion energy science.
PME welcomes new Professor Liang Jiang
University of Chicago
September 27, 2019
Liang Jiang, a quantum theorist who has made important contributions to secure quantum communication over long distances, has joined the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME) at the University of Chicago as a professor.
Illinois researchers create first three-photon color-entangled W state
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
September 25, 2019
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have constructed a quantum-mechanical state in which the colors of three photons are entangled with each other.
Ultracool engineering: Worldwide experts gather at Fermilab for first international workshop on cryogenic electronics for quantum systems
Fermilab
September 24, 2019
Leaders in quantum science converged this summer at Fermilab for the world’s first workshop on cryogenic electronics for quantum systems.
Seeing sound: Scientists observe how acoustic interactions change materials at the atomic level
Argonne National Laboratory
September 23, 2019
In a new discovery, scientists used X-rays to observe spatial changes in a silicon carbide crystal when using sound waves to strain buried defects inside it.
DOE awards Argonne $4.15 million for research in quantum computing and networking
Argonne National Lab
September 19, 2019
Argonne joins other labs on the threshold of a new era in quantum information science and quantum computing.
How will quantum computing change our society?
Forbes
September 8, 2019
Fred Chong, Seymour Goodman Professor at the University of Chicago, offers an answer. Quantum computing is the only technology in which every device that we add to a machine doubles the potential computing power of the machine.
Scientists couple magnetization to superconductivity for quantum discoveries
Argonne National Laboratory
September 6, 2019
By coupling magnetic behavior to a superconducting circuit, Argonne scientists pave the way for quantum information systems.
Times Higher Education: Opportunity for Unity
Times Higher Education
September 4, 2019
While nations compete to unlock the huge potential of quantum engineering, it is also a chance for building global partnerships. Around the world, a race is under way to develop the revolutionary potential of quantum engineering and technology.