Nature - Platforms based on molecules manipulated using ‘optical tweezers’ might be able to perform complex physics calculations.

Key step toward reliable, game-changing quantum computing.

Quantum Physicist Mikhail Lukin Appointed University Professor | News | The Harvard Crimson

MIT/Harvard spinout QuEra plans on releasing a quantum computer with 100 logical qubits and 10,000 physical qubits by 2026.

Nature - This 2D material is only the second to exhibit the fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect, and theorists are still debating how it works.

Cross-disciplinary scientist honored for scholarly contributions

First demonstration of non-Abelian anyons in a quantum processor.

Harvard scientists have made a significant advance in high-pressure physics by creating a tool that directly images superconducting materials under extreme conditions, facilitating new discoveries in...

LaNell Williams is building a career as a researcher and leader by going her own way, helping prospective grad students of color find theirs.

Superconductors have intrigued physicists for decades. But these materials, which allow the perfect, lossless flow of electrons, usually only exhibit this quantum-mechanical peculiarity at temperat...

Fabrication method could facilitate materials discovery. Harvard team led by Philip Kim innovates in high-temperature superconductors using cuprates. Developed the world's first superconducting...

Harvard Physicists Create New Phase of Matter, Advance Field of Quantum Computing | News | The Harvard Crimson

Researchers have observed a new class of nonlinear Hall effect that can be understood through a geometric description of the electronic wave function.

A team of physicists have created a new method for shuttling entangled atoms in a quantum processor at the forefront for building large-scale programmable quantum machines.

Molecules cooled to their quantum ground state

Scientists have developed a metafluid with programmable response. Scientists at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a programmable metafluid...

A pioneer and leader in quantum science and quantum computing, Mikhail Lukin will hold the Friedman University Professorship.

Landmark in quantum error correction could lead to large-scale, useful quantum computers

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The preferred “handedness” of biomolecules could have emerged from biased interactions between electrons and magnetic surfaces, new research suggests.

Two independent groups report a new tool for quantum science

Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a programmable metafluid with tunable springiness, optical properties, viscosity and even...

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In a new collaboration, two research groups, one led by Francesca Ferlaino and one by Markus Greiner, have joined force to develop an advanced quantum gas microscope for magnetic quantum matter. This...

Physicists have found a way the theory might limit the cosmic inflation that is thought to have expanded the early universe

Unsurprisingly, pop culture gets the multiverse wrong. Here's how it really works and how to escape this place

Harvard professor Eugene Demler was awarded this year’s Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics by the Joachim Herz Foundation, the Wolfgang Pauli Centre, and the University of Hamburg. The prize,...

Quantum bits are potentially powerful but notoriously error-prone. Now a Harvard team says it has found a way to prevent mistakes — by manipulating individual atoms with laser beams — making quantum...

Researchers have developed a specialized quantum computer, known as a quantum simulator, which could be used to shed new light on a host of complex quantum processes, from the connection between...

Neuroscientist honored for pioneering theories of brain function.

How Harvard Came to the Cutting Edge of Quantum Research | News | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard, BU Physicists Create New Tool to Probe High-Pressure Superconductors | News | The Harvard Crimson

Imagine stars moving at light speed and colliding around a black hole. Astronomers call these tidal disruption events.

An idea derived from string theory suggests that dark matter is hiding in a (relatively) large extra dimension. The theory makes testable predictions that physicists are investigating now.

The origin of dark energy has been perplexing scientists for decades.

Harvard researchers have performed the coldest reaction in the known universe by capturing a chemical reaction in its most critical and elusive act.

Everyone from physicists like Michio Kaku to Marvel superheroes propagate the idea of the multiverse - an infinite set of parallel universes. But Jacob Barandes argues that any talk of multiverses is...

Electrons flowing through power lines and computers inevitably encounter resistance; when they do, they lose some of their energy, which dissipates as heat. That's why laptops get hot after being...

Physics Professor Jennifer Hoffman ’99 Shatters Women’s Transcontinental Running Record | News | The Harvard Crimson

Physicist Steven Weinberg, the 1979 winner of the Nobel prize in physics with two other scientists for their work unlocking mysteries of tiny particles, has died at 88.

Two researchers at Harvard University, Aavishkar A. Patel and Subir Sachdev, have recently presented a new theory of a Planckian metal that could shed light on previously unknown aspects of quantum...

ANIA BLESZYNSKI chose split atoms over split steps as she turned her back on a career in tennis.  That is despite being ranked as the No1 Under-18s tennis star in the whole of the US. And now …

In 1944, a brilliant, young Harvard physics student named Ted Hall was recruited to work on the super-secret mission that had already assembled the country's top scientists: the Manhattan Project....

Merritt Moore explains how she combines her two passions – quantum physics and professional ballet

LK-99 is all the buzz on social media, but it is just the latest of many claims to have created a room-temperature superconductor. What is it that has people so excited, and what — if anything — sets...

Its exquisite roundness suggests any new particles are beyond the reach of the biggest atom smashers

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