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    Credit: BU
    Optical micrograph of quantum light source electronic-photonic circuits sites, with four visible out of the total 12 on the fabricated silicon chips. Credit: BU
    In a leap forward for quantum scaling, scientists from Boston University, UC Berkeley, and Northwestern University fabricated the first electronic-photonic-quantum system on a...
    July 29, 2025
    Credit: Aerotech
    FIGURE 1. Example of a high-dynamic motion system that consists of a split-axis linear motion system with stages directly integrated on granite and a high-dynamic 2-axis galvanometer scanner head.
    How can you determine and mitigate total system errors to design a machine that achieves both production throughput and process quality objectives simultaneously for via drilling...
    July 24, 2025
    Credit: Hutzler Lab
    In Hutzler's laboratory at Caltech, the Matisse Ti:sapphire laser, coupled with the Mixtrain SFG system, performs spectroscopy and laser control of cold atoms and molecules used to search for new fundamental particles and forces. Above, a graduate student adjusts locking electronics on the IR Ti:sapphire seed to excite an optical transition to a metastable triplet state of neutral radium-226 atoms, which induces accelerated formation of new radium-containing molecules.
    Case study: MKS Inc. shares how some of its gear is used by three different quantum research labs within the U.S., and expert advice to avoid lab pitfalls.
    July 23, 2025
    Credit: RMIT
    The team’s experimental device under a microscope.
    Stamp-sized microcavity devices filled with triplet acceptor molecules have been used for the first time to prevent fast radiative emission of Dicke quantum batteries, while retaining...
    July 16, 2025
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    For the photonics community, quantum networking is an opportunity to provide the critical infrastructure that transforms quantum computing into a world-changing technology.
    July 3, 2025
    Credit: NIST
    NIST researchers (left to right in back: Oliver Slattery, Xiao Tang, Lijun Ma, and Thomas Gerrits, and Anouar Rahmouni in front) involved in the breakthrough.
    First chipscale entangled photon source on silicon carbide (SiC) creates a robust and scalable method for generating entangled photon pairs within photonic circuits.
    July 1, 2025
    A superconducting qubit is coupled to a high coherence microwave resonator, and the qubit can be used to generate a microwave cat state within it.
    “Happy accident” leads to discovery that thermally excited states can create quantum superpositions—and there’s more than one type of hot cat state.
    May 22, 2025