Inspired by the “Harry Potter” stories and the Disney Channel show “Wizards of Waverly Place,” 7-year-old Sabrina Corsetti emphatically declared to her parents one afternoon that she was, in fact, a wizard.…
“My dad turned to me and said that, if I really wanted to be a wizard,…
Physicists are the real wizards of the world,” she recalls.
That conversation stuck with Corsetti throughout her childhood, all th…
New 3D chips could make electronics faster and more energy-efficient
The advanced semiconductor material gallium nitride will likely be key for the next generation of high-speed communication systems and the power electronics needed for state-of-the-art data centers.…
Unfortunately, the high cost of gallium nitride (GaN) and the speciali…
Now, researchers from MIT and elsewhere have developed a new fabricati…
Their method involves building many tiny transistors on the surface of…
Professor Emeritus Daniel Kleppner, highly influential atomic physicist, dies at 92
Daniel Kleppner, the Lester Wolfe Professor Emeritus of Physics at MIT whose work in experimental atomic physics made an immense mark on the field, died on June 16 at the age of 92, in Palo Alto, California.…
Kleppner’s varied research examined the interactions of atoms with sta…
His work included creating precision measurements with hydrogen masers…
Kleppner, who retired in 2003 after 37 years at MIT, was a highly lite…
Theory-guided strategy expands the scope of measurable quantum interactions
A new theory-guided framework could help scientists probe the properties of new semiconductors for next-generation microelectronic devices, or discover materials that boost the performance of quantum computers.…
Research to develop new or better materials typically involves investi…
Some properties remain effectively “invisible” because they are too di…
Take electron-phonon interaction — this property plays a critical role…
Cesium atoms and quantum dots generate indistinguishable photons for modular quantum networks
Large-scale quantum communication networks require both reliable quantum memories and coherent single-photon sources that can exchange quantum information efficiently.…
A coherent source of single photons with narrow linewidth, high bright…
While a variety of single-photon sources, such as quantum dots (QDs) a…
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…
“I went to 13 different schools, which was hard because you're in a di…
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…
In a paper appearing today in the Proceedings of the National Academy …