Quantum computing

First row, left to right: Suvrit Sra, Frances Ross, Pulkit Agrawal, Kevin O’Brien, Richard Linares, and Cathy Wu. Second row, left to right: Negar Reiskarimian, Jacob Andreas, Giovanni Traverso, Manya Ghobadi, and Ashwin Gopinath.

School of Engineering welcomes new faculty

Eleven new professors join the MIT community.

January 9, 2019

Researchers from MIT and elsewhere have recorded the “temporal coherence” of a graphene qubit — how long it maintains a special state that lets it represent two logical states simultaneously — marking a critical step forward for practical quantum computing.

Physicists record “lifetime” of graphene qubits

First measurement of its kind could provide stepping stone to practical quantum computing.

December 31, 2018

In two-dimensional tungsten ditelluride, two different states of matter — topological insulator and superconductor — can be chosen at will, MIT researchers discovered.

First two-dimensional material that performs as both topological insulator and superconductor

MIT researchers have demonstrated that a tungsten ditelluride-based transistor combines two different electronic states of matter.

October 31, 2018

This illustration shows a multi-jet event recorded by the CMS detector at the Large Hadron Collider.

Center for Theoretical Physics professors earn DOE Quantum Information Science Awards

Professors Daniel Harlow, Aram Harrow, Hong Liu, and Jesse Thaler among the first recipients of new honor for advances in quantum understanding.

October 12, 2018

“In sensing applications, you instead want a very carefully shaped hole in your net to let through the specific signal you’re looking for." says David Layden, PhD student in nuclear science and engineering.

Honing quantum sensing

PhD student David Layden in the Quantum Engineering Group has a new approach to spatial noise filtering that boosts development of ultra-sensitive quantum sensors.

September 25, 2018

James Maxwell was the first to realize that light is able to travel in perfect circles within the fish-eye lens because the density of the lens changes, with material being thickest at the middle and gradually thinning out toward the edges.

Fish-eye lens may entangle pairs of atoms

Scientists find a theoretical optical device may have uses in quantum computing.

September 5, 2018

President Reif urges “farsighted national strategy” to address China competition

New York Times op-ed by MIT president says a national focus on innovation and research is more effective than only playing defense on trade practices.

August 8, 2018

“The Logs has been the utmost formative experience of my college education,” says MIT senior Shaun Datta, at center performing with his fellow MIT Logarhythms. “We try to leave the rest of our thoughts and distractions at the door, so we can be very focused, and to give us a reprieve from the other things we’re working on.”

Quantum physics student leaving MIT on a high note

Math and physics major Shaun Datta wraps up four years of pushing himself beyond his comfort zone by singing a cappella with the MIT Logarhythms.

June 5, 2018

“My MIT education has shown me that in a world so filled with technology we have to make sure that we make room for humanity," says Ryan Robinson '17. "From science to humanities, technology to business, and invention to exposure, every human action has a human effect. Technology, at its greatest, begins and ends at our common humanity.”

From blank verse to blockchain

Ryan Robinson '17 launched his startup with skills from both the humanities and engineering.

April 19, 2018

CTP Professors Hong Liu, Jesse Thaler, William Detmold, Daniel Harlow, Tracy Slatyer, and Aram Harrow share a moment during a panel discussion on the future of theoretical physics.

Center for Theoretical Physics celebrates 50 years

Symposium explores how novel ideas and experiments are advancing many areas of theoretical physics in newly interconnected ways.

March 28, 2018

An illustration depicting a kagome metal — an electrically conducting crystal, made from layers of iron and tin atoms, with each atomic layer arranged in the repeating pattern of a kagome lattice.

Physicists discover new quantum electronic material

With an atomic structure resembling a Japanese basketweaving pattern, “kagome metal” exhibits exotic, quantum behavior.

March 19, 2018

The NMR spectrometer in the Quantum Engineering Group (QEG) lab

Scientists gain new visibility into quantum information transfer

Advance holds promise for “wiring” of quantum computers and other systems, and opens new avenues for understanding basic workings of the quantum realm.

March 8, 2018

Physicists at MIT and Harvard University have found that graphene, a lacy, honeycomb-like sheet of carbon atoms, can behave at two electrical extremes: as an insulator, in which electrons are completely blocked from flowing; and as a superconductor, in which electrical current can stream through without resistance.

Insulator or superconductor? Physicists find graphene is both

When rotated at a "magic angle," graphene sheets can form an insulator or a superconductor.

March 5, 2018

Scientists at MIT, Harvard University, and elsewhere have now demonstrated that photons can be made to interact — an accomplishment that could open a path toward using photons in quantum computing, if not in light sabers.

Physicists create new form of light

Newly observed optical state could enable quantum computing with photons.

February 15, 2018

Physicists at MIT and Harvard University have demonstrated a new way to manipulate quantum bits of matter. The researchers report using a system of finely tuned lasers to first trap and then tweak the interactions of 51 individual atoms, or quantum bits.

Scientists demonstrate one of largest quantum simulators yet, with 51 atoms

New technique manipulates atoms into antiferromagnetic state.

November 29, 2017

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