12-20-22 |Professor William Oliver was appointed to the National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee (NQIAC) On December 9, 2022. President Biden appointed Professor William D. Oliver to the National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee (NQIAC), 1 of 15 members who will provide advice to the Biden-Harris Administration and help maintain US leadership in quantum information science (QIS). President Biden enhanced NQIAC through an Executive Order, which elevated the committee to a presidential advisory committee, highlighting that the National Quantum Initiative is a whole-of-government effort that rises above any one Federal agency. The members of NQIAC include distinguished individuals from industry, universities, Federal laboratories, and other Federal Government agencies who are prominent in their fields, recognized for their achievements, and from diverse backgrounds. Congratulations Will!
12-19-22 | Now out in Physical Review Applied, from MIT-CQE members, Mollie E. Schwartz, Jonilyn L. Yoder, Joel I-Jan Wang, Will Oliver, and global co-authors: “Lindblad Tomography of Superconducting Quantum Processor” by Gabriel O. Samach, Ami Greene, Johannes Borregaard, Matthias Christandl, Joseph Barreto, David K. Kim, Christopher M. McNally, Alexander Melville, Bethany M. Niedzielski, Youngkyu Sung, Danna Rosenberg, Mollie E. Schwartz, Jonilyn L. Yoder, Terry P. Orlando, Joel I-Jan Wang, Simon Gustavsson, Morten Kjaergaard, and William D. Oliver
12-06-22 |Now out in Nature Communications from MIT-CQE member, Dirk Englund, an Associate Professor of EECS, in collaboration with MIT co-authors: “Asymptotically fault-tolerant programmable photonics” by Ryan Hamerly, Saumil Bandyopadhyay & Dirk Englund
11-28-22 | Now out in Journal of the American Chemical Society from MIT-CQE member, Prof. Danna Freedman and co-author Daniel Laorenza: “Could the Quantum Internet Be Comprised of Molecular Spins with Tunable Optical Interfaces?” by Daniel W. Laorenza and Danna Freedman
10-26-2022 | Now out in MIT News and Science Advances from MIT-CQE member, Prof. Farnaz Niroui and the Niroui Group: “Nanoparticle contact printing with interfacial engineering for deterministic integration into functional structures” by Weikun (Spencer) Zhu, Peter F. Satterthwaite, Patricia Jastrzebska-Perfect, Roberto Brenes, Farnaz Niroui.
10-26-2022 | Now out in MIT News and Advanced Materials from MIT-CQE Member, Mingda Li, MIT Quantum Measurement Group, in collaboration with researchers from Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Princeton University, Department of Physics, and Argonne National Laboratory: “Machine Learning Spectral Indicators of Topology” by Nina Andrejevic, Jovana Andrejevic, B. Andrei Bernevig, Nicolas Regnault, Fei Han, Gilberto Fabbris, Thanh Nguyen, Nathan C. Drucker, Chris H. Rycroft, Mingda Li.
10-24-2022 | Congratulations MIT School of Engineering’s newly tenured faculty, especially to MIT-CQE members: Prof. Michael Carbin and Prof. Luqiao Liu!
10-21-2022 | Check out the ‘Editor’s Suggestion’ in Phys.Rev.Lett. from The Cavendish Laboratory – Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, MIT-CQE Member, Prof. Dirk Englund, and MIT Quantum Photonics Laboratory: “Photonic Indistinguishability of the Tin-Vacancy Center in Nanostructured Diamond” by Jesús Arjona Martínez, Ryan A. Parker, Kevin Chen, Carola M. Purser, Linsen Li, Cathryn P. Michaels, Alexander M. Stramma, Romain Debroux, Isaac B. Harris, Martin Hayhurst Appel, Eleanor C. Nichols, Matthew E. Trusheim, Dorian A. Gangloff, Dirk Englund, and Mete Atatüre.
10-20-2022 | Now out in MIT News and Science from MIT-CQE members, Prof. Dirk Englund, P. Ben Dixon and Scott Hamilton from MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and researchers from MIT Quantum Photonics Laboratory and Nokia Corporation: “Delocalized photonic deep learning on the internet’s edge” by Alexander Sludds, Saumil Bandyopadhyay, Zaijun Chen, Zhizhen Zhong, Jared Cochrane, Liane Bernstein, Darius Bunandar, P. Ben Dixon, Scott Hamilton, Matthew Streshinsky, Ari Novack, Tom Baehr-Jones, Michael Hochberg, Manya Ghobadi, Ryan Hamerly, Dirk Englund.
10-19-2022 | Congratulations to MIT-CQE member, Prof. Nuh Gedik, one of six members of the MIT community elected fellows of the American Physical Society for 2022!
10-19-2022 | Now out in arXiv from MIT-CQE member, Prof. Dirk Englund, MIT Quantum Photonics Laboratory and in collaboration with Prof. Don Towsley, University of Massachusetts Amherst: “Quantum Network Utility: A Framework for Benchmarking Quantum Networks” by Yuan Lee, Wenhan Dai, Don Towsley, Dirk Englund.
10-17-2022 | Now out in Phys. Rev. B from MIT-CQE Member, Prof. Paola Cappellaro and MIT Quantum Engineering Group: “Self-consistent noise characterization of quantum devices” by Won Kyu Calvin Sun and Paola Cappellaro.
10-13-2022 | MIT News features PhD student, Alex Greene, a member of the Engineering Quantum Systems (EQuS) Group. Alex’s thesis was conducted at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and focused on motional heating noise in trapped ion quantum information processing systems. They are a recipient of the Alan L McWhorter Fellowship.
10-12-2022 | Check out the latest on arXiv from MIT-CQE member, Prof. Dirk Englund and scientists from MIT Quantum Photonics Laboratory: “Transferable Learning on Analog Hardware” by Sri Krishna Vadlamani, Dirk Englund, Ryan Hamerly.
10-12-2022 | Congratulations to MIT-CQE member, Danna Freedman, the F. G. Keyes Professor of Chemistry, named recipient of a 2022 MacArthur Fellowship! Freedman uses molecular chemistry to create qubits from the electron spin of paramagnetic coordination complexes — molecules with a metallic central atom surrounded by bonded molecules or ions, known as ligands. She has shown that the quantum properties of such complexes can be controlled using specific ligands and by adjusting the strength of the bonds connecting the ligands to the central metal atom.
10-07-2022 | Check out the latest in Phys. Rev. Applied from MIT-CQE Director and Henry Ellis Warren (1894) Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and of Physics, William D. Oliver, MIT Engineering Quantum Systems (EQuS) Group, and in collaboration with researchers from MIT Lincoln Laboratory: “Distinguishing Multispin Interactions from Lower-Order Effects” by Thomas R. Bergamaschi, Tim Menke, William P. Banner, Agustin Di Paolo, Steven J. Weber, Cyrus F. Hirjibehedin, Andrew J. Kerman, and William D. Oliver.
10-06-2022 | Check out the latest in Nature Materials from MIT-CQE Members: Department Head and Haslam and Dewey Professor of Chemistry, Troy Van Voorhis, and Dugald C. Jackson Professor of Electrical Engineering and the Director for the MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics, Marc Baldo, and researchers from MIT Department of Chemistry and MIT EECS: “Exchange controlled triplet fusion in metal–organic frameworks” by Dong-Gwang Ha, Ruomeng Wan, Changhae Andrew Kim, Ting-An Lin, Luming Yang, Troy Van Voorhis, Marc A Baldo, Mircea Dincă.
10-06-2022 | Now out in arXiv from MIT Prof. Dirk Englund, MIT Quantum Photonics Laboratory, in collaboration with researchers from MITRE, and Sandia National Laboratories: “Scalable photonic integrated circuits for programmable control of atomic systems” by Adrian J. Menssen, Artur Hermans, Ian Christen, Thomas Propson, Chao Li, Andrew J Leenheer, Matthew Zimmermann, Mark Dong, Hugo Larocque, Hamza Raniwala, Gerald Gilbert, Matt Eichenfield, Dirk R Englund.
10-05-2022 | Registration is now open! Join MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and MIT Center for Quantum Engineering for Convergence: The Promise and Reality of AI & Quantum, a one-day program held on November 14th, 2022 that is essential for those wanting to understand where Quantum research stands and harness the power at the intersection of quantum and AI. MIT CSAIL Director, Prof. Daniela Rus and MIT-CQE Director, Prof. William D. Oliver are teaming up to host and discuss the promise and practical realities – as we know them today – about Quantum Computing, Artificial Intelligence, and how they will affect the economy and the world.
10-04-2022 | The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science.” Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger have each conducted groundbreaking experiments using entangled quantum states, where two particles behave like a single unit even when they are separated. Their results have cleared the way for new technology based upon quantum information. Congratulations!!!
09-30-2022 | Congratulations to Edwin Eduardo Pedrozo Peñafiel Research Scientist at MIT’s Experimental Atomic Physics Group and MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms, named the winner of the 2022 Alejandro Angel Escobar National Award in Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences! The Alejandro Angel Escobar Awards are the oldest and most important recognition in Colombia. “Edwin Eduardo Pedrozo Peñafiel obtains this award among other reasons because the evaluating jurors considered that his research: The search for new Physics with Entanglement-Enhanced Optical Atomic Clocks is “a scientific advance in the frontier of physics that will revolutionize the precision of sensors and synchronization of computational processes…to a promising researcher who can become a model for many young people.”
09-22-2022 | Congratulations to MIT-CQE member, Peter Shor, the Morss Professor of Applied Mathematics at MIT, named a recipient of the 2023 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics!
09-16-2022 | Now out in Nature Communications from MIT-CQE member, Prof. Karl Berggren and MIT Quantum Nanostructures and Nanofabrication Group: “Self-heating hotspots in superconducting nanowires cooled by phonon black-body radiation” by Andrew Dane, Jason Allmaras, Di Zhu, Murat Onen, Marco Colangelo, Reza Baghdadi, Jean-Luc Tambasco, Yukimi Morimoto, Ignacio Estay Forno, Ilya Charaev, Qingyuan Zhao, Mikhail Skvortsov, Alexander Kozorezov & Karl K. Berggren.
09-12-2022 | Listen to the latest MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) Alliances podcast: “Understanding Quantum Computing with Professor Peter Shor and MIT-CQE Director, Professor Will Oliver.” Two Quantum Computing pioneers join for a conversation on the current state and future possibilities of quantum computing.
09-12-2022 | Watch MIT Quantum Engineering Group and MIT Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering graduate student, Guoqing Wang’s talk: “When quantum meets diamond: highly-sensitive sensors and more powerful simulators.”
09-07-2022 | The Google Quantum AI Summer Symposium 2022 sessions are now available, watch MIT-CQE member, Prof. Aram Harrow’s talk: “Quantum walks on hierarchical graphs.”
09-02-2022 | Now out in Physical Review Letters from MIT-CQE members and MIT Lincoln Laboratory scientists: Robert McConnell, John Chiaverini, Danielle Braje, and Colin Bruzewicz: “High-Fidelity Ion State Detection Using Trap-Integrated Avalanche Photodiodes” by David Reens, Michael Collins, Joseph Ciampi, Dave Kharas, Brian F. Aull, Kevan Donlon, Colin D. Bruzewicz, Bradley Felton, Jules Stuart, Robert J. Niffenegger, Philip Rich, Danielle Braje, Kevin K. Ryu, John Chiaverini, and Robert McConnell.
09-01-2022 | Now out in Physical Review A from MIT-CQE members, Profs. Dirk Englund and Seth Lloyd, and researchers from MIT, Scuola Normale Superiore, and Università di Bologna: “Quantum algorithms for group convolution, cross-correlation, and equivariant transformations” by Grecia Castelazo, Quynh T Nguyen, Giacomo De Palma, Dirk Englund, Seth Lloyd, and Bobak Kiani.
08-29-2022 | Check out the latest in ArXiv from MIT-CQE member, Prof. Dirk Englund and MIT Quantum Photonics Laboratory, in collaboration with researchers from MITRE, and Sandia National Laboratories: “Programmable photonic integrated meshes for modular generation of optical entanglement links” by Mark Dong, Matthew Zimmermann, David Heim, Hyeongrak Choi, Genevieve Clark, Andrew J. Leenheer, Kevin J. Palm, Alex Witte, Daniel Dominguez, Gerald Gilbert, Matt Eichenfield, Dirk Englund.
08-27-2022 | The Keynote: “Giant Artificial Atoms and Waveguide QED” by MIT-CQE Director, Prof. Will Oliver at the Superconducting Qubits and Algorithms Conference held in Helsinki from Aug. 25 – Aug. 28th, 2022 is now available on youtube: Start at 14:06.
08-26-2022 | The Nobelsymposium NS166: ‘Emerging Quantum Technologies’ is underway in Malmö, Sweden. Speaking at this year’s event is MIT-CQE member, MIT Prof. Paola Cappellaro, an expert in NMR, ESR, coherent control and quantum information science. She is a specialist in spin-based quantum information processing and precision measurements in the solid state. Her symposium presentation abstract is on ‘Practical quantum advantage in sensing.’ ‘The Nobel Symposia are international conferences at the highest scientific level, bringing Swedish researchers in direct contact with the international research frontier. Since the start in 1965, more than 160 Nobel symposia have been held.’
08-23-2022 | Now out in Physical Review B from MIT-CQE Member, Prof. Senthil Todrari with co-authors: “Dipolar Bose-Hubbard model” by Ethan Lake, Michael Hermele, and T. Senthil.
08-18-2022 | Check out the latest in ‘Physical Review X’ and featured in ‘Physics’ from MIT-CQE member, Prof. Danna Freedman and researchers from Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, Dept of Chemistry, and Dept of Physics at University of Chicago, James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, Dept of Chemistry, Northwestern University, and Center for Molecular Engineering and Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory: “Enhancing Spin Coherence in Optically Addressable Molecular Qubits through Host-Matrix Control” by Bayliss, P. Deb, D. W. Laorenza, M. Onizhuk, G. Galli, D. E. Freedman, and D. D. Awschalom.
08-13-2022 | Check out the latest on arXiv from MIT-CQE member, Prof. Dirk Englund and MIT’s Quantum Photonics Laboratory, in collaboration with MIT Lincoln Laboratory, including MIT-CQE members: Scott Hamilton, P. Benjamin Dixon, and Danielle Braje, and researchers from CSEM: “An integrated photonic engine for programmable atomic control” by Ian Christen, Madison Sutula, Thomas Propson, Hamed Sattari, Gregory Choong, Christopher Panuski, Alexander Melville, Justin Mallek, Scott Hamilton, P. Benjamin Dixon, Adrian J. Menssen, Danielle Braje, Amir H. Ghadimi, and Dirk Englund.
08-11-2022 | Check out the latest in Physical Review Applied from MIT-CQE member, Prof. Paola Cappellaro and MIT Quantum Engineering Group, in collaboration with researchers from the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College: “Deep Reinforcement Learning for Quantum Hamiltonian Engineering” by Pai Peng, Xiaoyang Huang, Chao Yin, Linta Joseph, Chandrasekhar Ramanathan, and Paola Cappellaro.
08-09-2022 | The CHIPS and Science Act was signed into law today: “The CHIPS and Science Act will establish a technology, innovation, and partnerships directorate at the National Science Foundation (NSF) to focus on fields like semiconductors and advanced computing, advanced communications technology, advanced energy technologies, quantum information technologies, and biotechnology.”
08-05-2022 | Now out in Phys. Rev. Applied from MIT-CQE member, Prof. Dirk Englund and the MIT Quantum Photonics Laboratory: “Accurate Self-Configuration of Rectangular Multiport Interferometers” Ryan Hamerly, Saumil Bandyopadhyay, and Dirk Englund.
08-05-2022 | Now out in Phys. Rev. Applied from MIT-CQE member, Prof. Dirk Englund and the MIT Quantum Photonics Laboratory: “Stability of Self-Configuring Large Multiport Interferometers” by Ryan Hamerly, Saumil Bandyopadhyay, and Dirk Englund.
08-02-2022 | Now out on arXiv from MIT-CQE member, Prof. Dirk Englund and MIT Quantum Photonics Laboratory with co-authors: “Single chip photonic deep neural network with accelerated training” by Saumil Bandyopadhyay, Alexander Sludds, Stefan Krastanov, Ryan Hamerly, Nicholas Harris, Darius Bunandar, Matthew Streshinsky, Michael Hochberg, Dirk Englund.
07-31-2022 | Check out the faculty feature in MIT News of MIT-CQE member and MIT’s F.G. Keyes Professor of Chemistry, Danna Freedman: “The chemistry professor embraces the most challenging moments of her work to design molecules for quantum information science.”
07-28-2022 | Check out the latest in MIT News and Science from MIT-CQE members, Prof. Ju Li and Prof. Bilge Yildiz: “Nanosecond protonic programmable resistors for analog deep learning” by Murat Onen, Nicolas Emond, Baoming Wang, Difei Zhang, Frances M. Ross, Ju Li, Bilge Yildiz and Jesus A. del Alamo.
07-26-2022 | Happy 71st Birthday to to MIT Lincoln Laboratory! On this day 71 years ago, MIT Lincoln Laboratory was established to build the nation’s first air defense system. Learn more about their history, for over six decades, MITLL research and development has helped shape the nation’s security, defense, & technology.
07-22-2022 | Now out in MIT News and Science Advances from MIT Prof. Keith Nelson and MIT Nelson Group (Coherent Spectroscopy and Coherent Control of Complex Materials) in collaboration with co-authors from MIT and UT Austin: “Snapshots of a light-induced metastable hidden phase driven by the collapse of charge order” by Frank Y. Gao, Zhuquan Zhang, Zhiyuan Sun, Linda Ye, Yu-Hsiang Cheng, Zi-Jie Liu, Joseph G. Checkelsky, Edoardo Baldini, and Keith A. Nelson.
07-22-2022 | Learn more about Atlantic Quantum, a startup founded by members of the MIT Engineering Quantum Systems (EQuS) group, led by MIT-CQE Director and Prof. Will Oliver and Principal Research Scientist Dr. Simon Gustavsson.
07-18-2022 |Now out in Nano Letters from MIT-CQE member, MIT Prof. Karl Berggren and MIT’s Quantum Nanostructures and Nanofabrication Group, in collaboration with researchers from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Caltech, NIST, and Department of Physics at UK’s Lancaster University: “Large-Area Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors for Operation at Wavelengths up to 7.4 μm” by Marco Colangelo, Alexander B. Walter, Boris A. Korzh, Ekkehart Schmidt, Bruce Bumble, Adriana E. Lita, Andrew D. Beyer, Jason P. Allmaras, Ryan M. Briggs, Alexander G. Kozorezov, Emma E. Wollman, Matthew D. Shaw, and Karl K. Berggren.
07-15-2022 | Watch MIT-CQE Director, MIT Prof. William D. Oliver’s talk at University of Pennsylvania on “Engineering Giant Artificial Atoms and Waveguide QED.”
07-14-2022 | Check out the latest in Nature Physics from MIT-CQE member, MIT Prof. Wolfgang Ketterle, Atomic Quantum Gases @ MIT, and MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms: “Long-lived phantom helix states in Heisenberg quantum magnets” by Paul Niklas Jepsen, Yoo Kyung ‘Eunice’ Lee, Hanzhen Lin, Ivana Dimitrova, Yair Margalit, Wen Wei Ho & Wolfgang Ketterle.
07-14-2022 | Now out in MIT News and Nature Physics from MIT-CQE member, MIT Prof. Vladan Vuletić, and MIT’s Experimental Atomic Physics Group: “Time-reversal-based quantum metrology with many-body entangled states” by Simone Colombo, Edwin Pedrozo-Peñafiel, Albert F. Adiyatullin, Zeyang Li, Enrique Mendez, Chi Shu & Vladan Vuletić.
07-12-2022 | Check out the latest in arXiv from MIT-CQE member, MIT Prof. Dirk Englund, MIT Quantum Photonics Laboratory, and in collaboration with the Technische Universität Berlin: “Deep Learning with Coherent VCSEL Neural Networks” by Zaijun Chen, Alexander Sludds, Ronald Davis, Ian Christen, Liane Bernstein, Tobias Heuser, Niels Heermeier, James A. Lott, Stephan Reitzenstein, Ryan Hamerly, and Dirk Englund.
07-08-2022 | Check out the latest in arXiv from MIT-CQE member, MIT Prof. Dirk Englund and MIT’s Quantum Photonics Laboratory: “Frequency-Encoded Deep Learning with Speed-of-Light Dominated Latency” by Ronald Davis III, Zaijun Chen, Ryan Hamerly, and Dirk Englund.
07-08-2022 | Now out in MIT News & Nature Materials from MIT-CQE member, MIT Prof. Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, the Jarillo-Herrero Lab with co-authors from MIT and the National Institute for Materials Science in Tsukuba, Japan: “Robust superconductivity in magic-angle multilayer graphene family” by Jeong Min Park, Yuan Cao, Li-Qiao Xia, Shuwen Sun, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi & Pablo Jarillo-Herrero.
07-07-2022 | Now out in Nature Communications from MIT-CQE member, MIT Prof. Dirk Englund, MIT Quantum Photonics Laboratory in collaboration with Professors Juejun Hu, Jing Kong, and Tomas Palacios, and their teams: “Waveguide-integrated mid-infrared photodetection using graphene on a scalable chalcogenide glass platform” by Jordan Goldstein, Hongtao Lin, Skylar Deckoff-Jones, Marek Hempel, Ang-Yu Lu, Kathleen A. Richardson, Tomás Palacios, Jing Kong, Juejun Hu & Dirk Englund.
07-01-2022 | Check out the latest in Physical Review B from MIT-CQE member and MIT Prof. Ju Li and the Ju Li Group: “Nonlinear nonreciprocal photocurrents under phonon dressing” by Haowei Xu, Hua Wang, and Ju Li.
07-01-2022 | Now out in Physical Review Letters from MIT-CQE member and MIT Prof. Luqiao Liu, MIT Spintronic Material and Device Group, and in collaboration with researchers from U Minnesota: “Control of Néel Vector with Spin-Orbit Torques in an Antiferromagnetic Insulator with Tilted Easy Plane,” by Pengxiang Zhang, Chung-Tao Chou, Hwanhui Yun, Brooke C. McGoldrick, Justin T. Hou, K. Andre Mkhoyan, and Luqiao Liu.
06-29-2022 | Now out in npj Quantum Information from MIT-CQE member & MIT Prof. Dirk Englund, MIT Quantum Photonics Laboratory, and in collaboration with researchers from QuTech, Delft University of Technology, and Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft, Delft, The Netherlands: “A quantum router architecture for high-fidelity entanglement flows in quantum networks,” by Yuan Lee, Eric Bersin, Axel Dahlberg, Stephanie Wehner & Dirk Englund.
06-21-2022 | Now out in MIT News, Physical Review X with special feature in ‘Physics’, from MIT-CQE member and MIT Prof. Paola Cappellaro, MIT Quantum Engineering Group, and MIT Lincoln Laboratory: “Sensing of Arbitrary-Frequency Fields Using a Quantum Mixer” by Guoqing Wang, Yi-Xiang Liu, Jennifer Schloss, Scott Alsid, Danielle Braje, and Paola Cappellaro.
06-15-2022 | Now out in Nature Communications from MIT-CQE member & MIT Prof. Rafael Gómez Bombarelli and co-authors from Harvard University’s Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology: “Excited state non-adiabatic dynamics of large photoswitchable molecules using a chemically transferable machine learning potential,” by Simon Axelrod, Eugene Shakhnovich & Rafael Gómez Bombarelli.
06-10-2022 | Now out in Physical Review Letters from MIT Prof. Karl Berggren and MIT’s Quantum Nanostructures and Nanofabrication Group, in collaboration with scientists from National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), U Zurich, Stanford U Institute of Theoretical Physics, U Washington, Perimeter Institute, NYU CCPP, and Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute: “New Constraints on Dark Photon Dark Matter with Superconducting Nanowire Detectors in an Optical Haloscope,” by Jeff Chiles, Ilya Charaev, Robert Lasenby, Masha Baryakhtar, Junwu Huang, Alexana Roshko, George Burton, Marco Colangelo, Ken Van Tilburg, Asimina Arvanitaki, Sae Woo Nam, and Karl K. Berggren.
06-08-2022 | Check out the latest in arXiv from MIT-CQE member & MIT Prof. Dirk Englund, MIT Quantum Photonics Laboratory, and in collaboration with co-authors: “Zero-Added-Loss Entangled Photon Multiplexing for Ground- and Space-Based Quantum Networks” by Kevin C. Chen, Prajit Dhara, Mikkel Heuck, Yuan Lee, Wenhan Dai, Saikat Guha, and Dirk Englund.
05-25-2022 | Check out the latest in API Photonics from MIT-CQE Member, MIT Prof. Dirk Englund, MIT’s Quantum Photonics Laboratory, and scientists from MITRE & Sandia National Laboratories: “Piezo-optomechanical cantilever modulators for VLSI visible photonics” by Mark Dong, David Heim, Alex Witte, Genevieve Clark, Andrew Leenheer, Daniel Dominguez, Matthew Zimmermann, Y. Henry Wen, Gerald Gilbert, Dirk Englund, and Matt Eichenfield.
05-18-2022 | Now out in arXiv from MIT-CQE member, MIT Prof. Dirk Englund and MIT Quantum Photonics Laboratory: “Single-Shot Optical Neural Network” by Liane Bernstein, Alexander Sludds, Christopher Panuski, Sivan Trajtenberg-Mills, Ryan Hamerly, and Dirk Englund.
05-17-2022 | Check out the latest in Chemical Science from MIT-CQE member, MIT Prof. Danna Freedman and the Freedman Lab, in collaboration with James Rondinelli & group at Northwestern University, and researchers from Argonne National Laboratory, & CIT: “Chemical control of spin–lattice relaxation to discover a room temperature molecular qubit” by M. Jeremy Amdur, Kathleen R. Mullin, Michael J. Waters, Danilo Puggioni, Michael K. Wojnar, Mingqiang Gu, Lei Sun, Paul H. Oyala, James Rondinelli and Danna Freedman.
05-12-2022 | Congratulations to MIT-CQE member, MIT Prof. Pablo Jarillo-Herrero elected to the National Academy of Sciences for 2022 for his outstanding contributions to research!
05-11-2022 | “Renowned mathematician and quantum computing pioneer Peter W. Shor has been named the recipient of MIT’s 2022-2023 James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award, the highest honor the Institute faculty can bestow upon one of its members each academic year.”
05-09-2022 | Checkout the latest in arXiv from MIT-CQE member, MIT Prof. Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, the Jarillo-Herrero Group, and global co-authors: “Electrical switching of a moiré ferroelectric superconductor” by Dahlia R. Klein, Li-Qiao Xia, David MacNeill, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Pablo Jarillo-Herrero.
04-29-2022 | Congratulations to MIT-CQE member, MIT. Prof. Ju Li, selected to receive ‘The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS) Fellow Award, Class of 2022.’ Prof. Li receives the award “for ground-breaking work on understanding the fundamental properties of ultra-strength materials and development and implementation of elastic strain engineering.” Congratulations, Prof, Li!
04-27-2022 | Now out in Phys. Rev. X from MIT-CQE member, MIT Prof. Aram Harrow, MIT’s Center for Theoretical Physics, and researchers from the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter at Caltech and AWS Center for Quantum Computing: “Efficient Classical Simulation of Random Shallow 2D Quantum Circuits” by John C. Napp, Rolando L. La Placa, Alexander M. Dalzell, Fernando G. S. L. Brandão, and Aram W. Harrow.
04-26-2022 | Now out in MIT News and Phys. Rev. Lett. from MIT-CQE member, MIT Prof. Vivishek Sudhir with MIT’s Quantum & Precision Measurements Group & LIGO Laboratory and co-authors from the University of Waterloo: “Acceleration-Induced Effects in Stimulated Light-Matter Interactions” by Barbara Šoda, Vivishek Sudhir, and Achim Kempf.
04-22-2022 | Now out in Phys. Rev. Lett. from MIT-CQE member, MIT Prof. Vladan Vuletić, MIT’s Experimental Atomic Physics Group and Global Co-Authors: “Evidence of Two-Source King Plot Nonlinearity in Spectroscopic Search for New Boson” by Joonseok Hur, Diana P. L. Aude Craik, Ian Counts, Eugene Knyazev, Luke Caldwell, Calvin Leung, Swadha Pandey, Julian C. Berengut, Amy Geddes, Witold Nazarewicz, Paul-Gerhard Reinhard, Akio Kawasaki, Honggi Jeon, Wonho Jhe, and Vladan Vuletić.
04-21-2022 | Check out the latest in arXiv from MIT-CQE member, MIT Prof. Dirk Englund, MIT’s Quantum Photonics Laboratory, MIT EECS and co-authors (@AFResearchLab, @RITtigers , @UniStrathclyde , @AIMPhotonics , @AppliedNT , @Stanford, and @FlexCompute): “A full degree-of-freedom photonic crystal spatial light modulator” by Christopher Panuski, Ian R. Christen, Momchil Minkov, Cole J. Brabec, Sivan Trajtenberg-Mills, Alexander D. Griffiths, Jonathan J.D. McKendry, Gerald L. Leake, Daniel J. Coleman, Cung Tran, Jeffrey St Louis, John Mucci, Cameron Horvath, Jocelyn N. Westwood-Bachman, Stefan F. Preble, Martin D. Dawson, Michael J. Strain, Michael L. Fanto, Dirk R. Englund.
04-17-2022 | Check out the latest in arXiv from MIT-CQE Director & Prof. Will Oliver, MIT EQuS Group, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and in collaboration with the Theory of Superconducting Quantum Devices Group: “Extensible circuit-QED architecture via amplitude- and frequency-variable microwaves” by Agustin Di Paolo, Catherine Leroux, Thomas M. Hazard, Kyle Serniak, Simon Gustavsson, Alexandre Blais, William D. Oliver.
04-14-2022 | Now out in arXiv from MIT-CQE member & Prof. Dirk Englund and MIT Quantum Photonics Laboratory: “Electric-Field Programmable Spin Arrays for Scalable Quantum Repeaters” by Hanfeng Wang, Matthew E. Trusheim, Laura Kim, and Dirk R. Englund.
04-12-2022 | Check out the Laboratory of Physical Sciences ‘Qubit Collaboratory’ blog post by Yariv Yanay on joint LPS-MIT work measuring the speed of quantum information.
04-12-2022 | Now out in PRX_Quantum from MIT-CQE member, MIT Prof. Vladan Vuletić, MIT’s Experimental Atomic Physics Group, MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms, and researchers from Harvard University Department of Physics, the National Metrology Institute of Japan (NMIJ), and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST): “Collective Spin-Light and Light-Mediated Spin-Spin Interactions in an Optical Cavity” by Zeyang Li, Boris Braverman, Simone Colombo, Chi Shu, Akio Kawasaki, Albert F. Adiyatullin, Edwin Pedrozo-Peñafiel, Enrique Mendez, and Vladan Vuletic.
04-11-2022 | Now out in Nature Communications from MIT-CQE Director, MIT Prof. Will Oliver, MIT EQuS Group and MIT Lincoln Laboratory: “Improving qubit coherence using closed-loop feedback” by Antti Vepsäläinen, Roni Winik, Amir Karamlou, Jochen Braumüller, Agustin Di Paolo Youngkyu Sung, Bharath Kannan, Morten Kjaergaard, David K. Kim, Alexander J. Melville, Bethany M. Niedzielski, Jonilyn Yoder, Simon Gustavsson & Will Oliver.
04-08-2022 | Now out in PRX Quantum from MIT Prof. Kevin P. O’Brien & MIT’s Quantum Coherent Electronics Group: “Floquet-Mode Traveling-Wave Parametric Amplifiers” by Kaidong Peng, Mahdi Naghiloo, Jennifer Wang, Gregory D. Cunningham, Yufeng Ye, and Kevin P. O’Brien.
04-06-2022 | MIT has earned a No. 1 spot in 12 subject areas, according to the QS World University Rankings for 2022.
04-04-2022 | Congratulations to MIT-CQE member, MIT. Prof. Ju Li, selected to receive ‘The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS) Fellow Award, Class of 2022.’ Prof. Li receives the award “for ground-breaking work on understanding the fundamental properties of ultra-strength materials and development and implementation of elastic strain engineering.”
04-04-2022 | Check out the latest in Phys. Rev. Applied from MIT-CQE member, Dr. Danielle Braje, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and MIT Quantum Photonics Laboratory: “Thermally Polarized Solid-State Spin Sensor” by Reginald Wilcox, Erik Eisenach, John Barry, Matthew Steinecker, Michael O’Keeffe, Dirk Englund, and Danielle Braje.
03-28-2022 | MIT-CQE Members, MIT Profs. Timothy Swager and Dirk Englund have been named as research collaborators in the most recent class of Department of Defense (DoD) Laboratory-University Collaboration (LUCI) Fellows.
03-25-2022 | Check out the latest in npj Quantum Information from MIT-CQE Director, MIT Prof. William D. Oliver: “Quantum transport and localization in 1d and 2d tight-binding lattices” by Amir H. Karamlou, Jochen Braumüller, Yariv Yanay, Agustin Di Paolo, Patrick M. Harrington, Bharath Kannan, David Kim, Morten Kjaergaard, Alexander Melville, Sarah Muschinske, Bethany M. Niedzielski, Antti Vepsäläinen, Roni Winik, Jonilyn L. Yoder, Mollie Schwartz, Charles Tahan, Terry P. Orlando, Simon Gustavsson & William D. Oliver.
03-24-2022 | Now out in MIT News and Applied Physics Review from MIT-CQE member, MIT Prof. Mingda Li: “Elucidating proximity magnetism through polarized neutron reflectometry and machine learning” by Nina Andrejevic, Zhantao Chen, Thanh Nguyen, Leon Fan, Henry Heiberger, Ling-Jie Zhou, Yi-Fan Zhao, Cui-Zu Chang, Alexander Grutter, and Mingda Li.
03-18-2022 | MIT CQE-iQuISE (Center for Quantum Engineering, Interdisciplinary Quantum Information Science and Technology student group) and Harvard (School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Harvard Physics) have partnered to launch our first Quantum Science and Technology Workshop, a semester-long initiative geared towards high schoolers from all backgrounds. The program aims to introduce not only scientific and technological concepts, but also to spark discussion on what being a researcher entails in our current social and political climate.
03-17-2022 | Now out in PRX Quantum and “Editor’s Suggestion” from MIT-CQE Member, MIT Prof. Vladan Vuletić: “Any-To-Any Connected Cavity-Mediated Architecture for Quantum Computing with Trapped Ions or Rydberg Arrays” by Joshua Ramette, Josiah Sinclair, Zachary Vendeiro, Alyssa Rudelis, Marko Cetina, and Vladan Vuletić
03-17-2022 | Now out in MIT News and Science Magazine from MIT-CQE member, MIT Prof. Long Ju and MIT’s Ju Lab: Nano Optics for Quantum Materials: “Spectroscopy Signatures of Electron Correlations in a Trilayer Graphene/hBN Moiré Superlattice” by Jixiang Yang, Guorui Chen, Tianyi Han, Qihang Zhang, Ya-Hui Zhang, Lili Jiang, Bosai Lyu, Hongyuan Li, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Zhiwen Shi, Todadri Senthil, Yuanbo Zhang, Feng Wang, and Long Ju.
03-16-2022 | MIT iQuHACK 2022: Bringing together the next generation of quantum coders. The annual MIT quantum computing hackathon, MIT iQuHACK, was held virtually this year with 400 participants from 57 countries.
03-10-2022 | Check out the latest in arXiv from MIT-CQE Member, MIT Prof. Dirk Englund: “Wavelength Multiplexed Ultralow-Power Photonic Edge Computing” by Alexander Sludds, Saumil Bandyopadhyay, Zaijun Chen, Zhizhen Zhong, Liane Bernstein, Darius Bunandar, Matthew Streshinsky, Ari Novack, Tom Baehr-Jones, Michael Hochberg, Manya Ghobadi, Ryan Hamerly, and Dirk Englund.
03-08-2022 | Now out in MIT News and Science Magazine from MIT-CQE member, MIT Prof. Wolfgang Ketterle and the MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms: “Control of reactive collisions by quantum interference” by Hyungmok Son, Juliana J. Park, Yu-Kun Lu, Alan O. Jamison, Tijs Karman, Wolfgang Ketterle.
03-08-2022 | Now out in MIT News and the journal of Advanced Energy Materials from MIT-CQE member, MIT Prof. Bilge Yildiz and MIT’s Laboratory of Electrochemical interfaces: “Avoiding CO2 Improves Thermal Stability at the Interface of Li7La3Zr2O12 Electrolyte with Layered Oxide Cathodes” by Younggyu Kim, Iradwikanari Waluyo, Adrian Hunt, and Bilge Yildiz.
03-04-2022 | Now out in Science from MIT-CQE member, MIT Prof. Paola Cappellaro, and MIT’s Quantum Engineering Group: “A synthetic monopole source of Kalb-Ramond field in diamond,” by Mo Chen, Changhao Li, Giandomenico Palumbo, Yan-Qing Zhu, Nathan Goldman, and Paola Cappellaro.
03-02-2022 | Now out in arXiv from MIT-CQE Director, MIT Prof. Will Oliver and MIT’s EQuS Laboratory: “On-Demand Directional Photon Emission using Waveguide Quantum Electrodynamics” by Bharath Kannan, Aziza Almanakly, Youngkyu Sung, Agustin Di Paolo, David Rower, Jochen Braumüller, Alexander Melville, Bethany A. Niedzielski, Amir Karamlou, Kyle Serniak, Antti Vepsäläinen, Mollie Schwartz, Jonilyn Yoder, Roni Winik, Joel I-Jan Wang, Terry P. Orlando, Simon Gustavsson, Jeffrey Grover, and Will Oliver.
03-01-2022 | Congratulations to MIT Lincoln Laboratory 2021 Best Paper Award Recipient: “Cavity-enhanced microwave readout of a solid-state spin sensor,” written by Erik R. Eisenach, Dr. John F. Barry, Dr. Michael O’Keeffe, Dr. Jennifer M. Schloss, Dr. Matthew H. Steinecker, MIT Prof. Dirk R. Englund, and Dr. Danielle A. Braje, and published in Nature Communications, Volume 12, March 2021.
02-23-2022 | Now out in MIT News and Nature from MIT-CQE Member, MIT Prof. Nuh Gedik and the Gedik group, along with MIT-CQE Member, MIT Prof. Riccardo Comin and collaborators in Italy, Japan and at Arizona State University: “Evidence for a single-layer van der Waals multiferroic” by Qian Song, Connor A. Occhialini, Emre Ergeçen, Batyr Ilyas, Danila Amoroso, Paolo Barone, Jesse Kapeghian, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Antia S. Botana, Silvia Picozzi, Nuh Gedik & Riccardo Comin.
02-18-2022 | Check out the latest article in IEEE Spectrum by Rina Diane Caballar: “Meet Twist: MIT’s Quantum Programming Language” describing the work of Charles Yuan, MIT-CQE Doc Bedard Fellow, Chris McNally, and MIT Prof. Michael Carbin.
02-16-2022 | Congratulations to MIT-CQE Member, MIT Prof. Long Ju, one of seven MIT recipients of the 2022 Sloan Research Fellowships by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. “Today’s Sloan Research Fellows represent the scientific leaders of tomorrow,” says Adam F. Falk, president of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. “As formidable young scholars, they are already shaping the research agenda within their respective fields — and their trailblazing won’t end here.”
02-16-2022 | Check out the latest in Phys. Rev. B from MIT-CQE member, MIT Prof. Senthil Todadri: “Lowest Landau level theory of the bosonic Jain states” by Hart Goldman and T. Senthil.
02-14-2022 | Check out the latest in Phys. Rev. A from MIT-CQE member, MIT Prof. Seth Lloyd, in collaboration with MIT-CQE member, MIT Prof. Dirk Englund and co-authors: “Quantum advantage for differential equation analysis,” by Bobak Toussi Kiani, Giacomo De Palma, Dirk Englund, William Kaminsky, Milad Marvian, and Seth Lloyd.
02-14-2022 | Now out in arXiv from MIT Prof. Dirk Englund and MIT’s Quantum Photonics Laboratory, in collaboration with Sandia National Laboratories: “A spin-optomechanical quantum interface enabled by an ultrasmall mechanical and optical mode volume cavity” by Hamza Raniwala, Stefan Krastanov, Matt Eichenfield and Dirk Englund.
02-14-2022 | Check out the latest in MIT News and Nature Physics from MIT-CQE Member, MIT Prof. Joe Formaggio: “Direct neutrino-mass measurement with sub-electronvolt sensitivity.”
02-10-2022 | Check out the latest in the Journal of Lightwave Technology from MIT-CQE member, MIT Prof. Karl Berggren and MIT’s Quantum Nanostructures and Nanofabrication Group: “PHz Electronic Device Design and Simulation for Waveguide-Integrated Carrier-Envelope Phase Detection” by Dario Cattozzo Mor, Yujia Yang, Felix Ritzkowsky, Franz Kartner, Karl Berggren, Neetesh Singh, and Phillip Keathley.
02-09-2022 | Check out the latest in arXiv from MIT Prof. Dirk Englund and MIT’s Quantum Photonics Laboratory in collaboration with co-authors: “Triggered single-photon generation and resonance fluorescence in ultra-low loss integrated photonic circuits” by Ashish Chanana, Hugo Larocque, Renan Moreira, Jacques Carolan, Biswarup Guha, Vikas Anant, Jin Dong Song, Dirk Englund, Daniel J. Blumenthal, Kartik Srinivasan, and Marcelo Davanco
02-09-2022 | MIT-CQE Strategic Partner, MIT.nano receives grant to acquire focused ion beam scanning electron microscope National Science Foundation award will allow the VELION FIB-SEM to become a permanent instrument in MIT.nano’s characterization facility.
02-07-2022 | QuARC2022 QSEC Annual Research Conference held virtually. Keynote speakers: Jungsang Kim, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of IonQ and Quantum Information Science Pioneer, Isaac Chuang, Professor of Physics and EECS at MIT. Student pitches & poster sessions on research topics in quantum information science and engineering, and talks led by current industry professionals. Poster and Pitch Session winners announced on LinkedIn.
02-07-2022 | Check out IEEE Spectrum’s article on: Atomically Thin Materials Significantly Shrink Qubits MIT researchers use 2D materials for capacitors in quantum circuits in an effort to scale processors.
02-07-2022 | Check out the latest in Nature Physics from MIT-CQE member, MIT Prof. Pablo Jarillo-Herrero with co-authors: “Cyclotron resonance overtones and near-field magnetoabsorption via terahertz Bernstein modes in graphene” by D. A. Bandurin, E. Mönch, K. Kapralov, I. Y. Phinney, K. Lindner, S. Liu, J. H. Edgar, I. A. Dmitriev, P. Jarillo-Herrero, D. Svintsov & S. D. Ganichev.
02-07-2022 | Now out in MIT News and Physical Review Letters from MIT-CQE member, MIT Prof. Nuh Gedik: “Unconventional Hysteretic Transition in a Charge Density Wave” by B. Q. Lv, Alfred Zong, D. Wu, …, Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, …, and Nuh Gedik.
02-04-2022 | Check out the latest in arXiv from MIT-CQE Member, MIT Prof. Dirk Englund and the MIT Quantum Photonics Laboratory: “Individually Addressable Artificial Atoms in Silicon Photonics” by Mihika Prabhu, Carlos Errando-Herranz, Lorenzo De Santis, Ian Christen, Changchen Chen, and Dirk R. Englund.
02-02-2022 | SciTechDaily features “how MIT Researchers used the 2D material hexagonal boron nitride to build much smaller capacitors for superconducting qubits, enabling them to shrink the footprint of a qubit by two orders of magnitude without sacrificing performance.”
01-28-2022 | ‘iQuHACK 2022’ is a quantum computing hackathon on January 28-30th, 2022. This fully virtual event is hosted by MIT iQuISE with quantum computing challenges, talks, and prizes provided by leading industry and academic sponsors, including QuTech, Microsoft, IonQ, Google, IBM, HRL, Zapata, Zurich Instruments, QuEra, MIT CQE, MIT RLE, and MIT EECS.
01-27-2022 | Now out in MIT News and Nature Materials from MIT-CQE Director, MIT Prof. Will Oliver in collaboration with MIT-CQE members Joel I-Jan Wang, Kyle Serniak, Jonilyn Yoder, Mollie Schwartz, Terry Orlando, Simon Gustavsson, and Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, with additional co-authors: “Hexagonal boron nitride as a low-loss dielectric for superconducting quantum circuits and qubits” by Joel I-Jan Wang, Megan A. Yamoah, Qing Li, Amir Karamlou, Thao Dinh, Bharath Kannan, Jochen Braumüller, David Kim, Alexander Melville, Sarah Muschinske, Bethany M. Niedzielski, Kyle Serniak, Youngkyu Sung, Roni Winik, Jonilyn Yoder, Mollie Schwartz, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Terry P. Orlando, Simon Gustavsson, Pablo Jarillo-Herrero & Will Oliver.
01-26-2022 | Check out the latest in Nature and MIT News from MIT-CQE Member, MIT Prof. Martin Zwierlein, the Ultracold Quantum Gases Group and MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms: “Quantum register of fermion pairs” by Thomas Hartke, Botond Oreg, Ningyuan Jia & Martin Zwierlein.
01-24-2022 | Now out in MIT News from MIT-CQE Doc Bedard Fellow, Chris McNally: “Twist: Sound Reasoning for Purity and Entanglement in Quantum Programs” by Charles Yuan, Chris McNally and MIT Prof. Michael Carbin.
01-23-2022 | Check out this review in arxiv from MIT-CQE member, MIT Prof. Pablo Jarillo-Herrero with co-authors: “Materials and devices for fundamental quantum science and quantum technologies” by Marco Polini, Francesco Giazotto, Kin Chung Fong, Ioan M. Pop, Carsten Schuck, Tommaso Boccali, Giovanni Signorelli, Massimo D’Elia, Robert H. Hadfield, Vittorio Giovannetti, Davide Rossini, Alessandro Tredicucci, Dmitri K. Efetov, Frank H. L. Koppens, Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Anna Grassellino, Dario Pisignano.
01-21-2022| Now out in Nature Physics and MIT News from MIT-CQE member, MIT Prof. Riccardo Comin and the Comin Photon Scattering Lab: “Twofold van Hove singularity and origin of charge order in topological kagome superconductor CsV3Sb5” by Mingu Kang, Shiang Fang, Jeong-Kyu Kim, Brenden R. Ortiz, Sae Hee Ryu, Jimin Kim, Jonggyu Yoo, Giorgio Sangiovanni, Domenico Di Sante, Byeong-Gyu Park, Chris Jozwiak, Aaron Bostwick, Eli Rotenberg, Efthimios Kaxiras, Stephen D. Wilson, Jae-Hoon Park & Riccardo Comin.
01-20-2022 | Now out in Phys. Rev. Applied from MIT-CQE Director, MIT Prof. Will Oliver and MIT’s Engineering Quantum Systems (EQuS) Group, in collaboration with Raytheon BBN Technologies and MIT Lincoln Laboratory: “Deep-Neural-Network Discrimination of Multiplexed Superconducting-Qubit States”Benjamin Lienhard, Antti Vepsäläinen, Luke C.G. Govia, Cole R. Hoffer, Jack Y. Qiu, Diego Ristè, Matthew Ware, David Kim, Roni Winik, Alexander Melville, Bethany Niedzielski, Jonilyn Yoder, Guilhem J. Ribeill, Thomas A. Ohki, Hari K. Krovi, Terry P. Orlando, Simon Gustavsson, and William D. Oliver
01-19-2022 | Now out in MIT News: “MIT researchers lay out a strategy for how universities can help the U.S. regain its place as a semiconductor superpower.” Co-authors of the white paper include three MIT-CQE members: MIT-CQE Director, MIT Prof. Will Oliver; MIT Prof. Marc Baldo, the Dugald C. Jackson Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of the MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics; and Mark Gouker, Assistant Head of the Advanced Technology Division at MIT Lincoln Laboratory.
01-17-2022 | Popular Science reporter, Rahul Rao writes that researchers from MIT and Harvard have whipped up quantum tornadoes, “the latest demonstration of quantum mechanics—the strange code of laws that governs the universe at its finest, subatomic scales.” The article features the research of MIT-CQE member, MIT Prof. Martin Zwierlein, MIT’s Ultracold Quantum Gases Group, and MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms.
01-17-2022 | Check out the latest in Nature Nanotechnology from MIT Prof. Pablo Jarillo-Herrero and the Jarillo-Herrero Laboratory: “Interfacial ferroelectricity in rhombohedral-stacked bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides” by Xirui Wang, Kenji Yasuda, Yang Zhang, Song Liu, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, James Hone, Liang Fu & Pablo Jarillo-Herrero.
01-14-2022 | Check out the latest in Science Advances from MIT-CQE member, MIT Prof. Long Ju and MIT’s Ju Lab: Nano Optics for Quantum Materials: “Weyl Fermion magneto-electrodynamics and ultralow field quantum limit in TaAs” by Zhengguang Lu, Patrick Hollister, Mykhaylo Ozerov, Seongphill Moon, Eric D. Bauer, Filip Ronning, Dmitry Smirnov, Long Ju, B. J. Ramshaw.
01-14-2022| Check out the latest in Optics Express from MIT-CQE Member, MIT Prof. Dirk Englund and Hugo Larocque with the MIT Quantum Photonics Laboratory: “Universal linear optics by programmable multimode interference,” by Hugo Larocque and Dirk Englund.
01-14-2022 | MIT-CQE member, MIT Prof. Rajeev Ram, and others highlight the transformative, hands-on, undergraduate class experiences at MIT: “This led to a hands-on introduction to CAD design, photolithography, and 3D printing, followed by playing with different light sources and testing their devices on real-world applications by measuring the chlorophyll in a leaf and the emission of quantum dots.”
01-10-2022 | Check out the latest in Phys.org and Phys. Rev. Lett. from MIT Prof. Jeffrey Shapiro and MIT’s Optical and Quantum Communications Group: “Ultimate Accuracy Limit of Quantum Pulse-Compression Ranging” by Quntao Zhuang and Jeffrey H. Shapiro.
01-10-2022 | Now out in MIT News and Nature Communications from MIT-CQE member, MIT Prof. Nuh Gedik and the Gedik Group in collaboration with JungHyun Kim and Je-Geun Park of Seoul National University: “Magnetically brightened dark electron-phonon bound states in a van der Waals antiferromagnet” by Emre Ergeçen, Batyr Ilyas, Dan Mao, Hoi Chun Po, Mehmet Burak Yilmaz, JungHyun Kim, Je-Geun Park, T. Senthil & Nuh Gedik.
01-07-2022 | Now out in Phys. Rev. X from MIT-CQE Director, MIT Prof. Will Oliver, MIT EQuS Group, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Duke University Department of Physics and Chalmers University of Technology: “Demonstration of Density Matrix Exponentiation Using a Superconducting Quantum Processor” by Morten Kjaergaard, Mollie Schwartz and co-authors.
01-07-2022 | The Quantum Science and Engineering Research Conference, ‘QuARC 2022’ will be held virtually on February 7th, 2022. Hosted by MIT Center for Quantum Engineering (CQE) in partnership with MIT’s Interdisciplinary Quantum Information Science and Engineering (iQuise) student organization, it is a student-run conference showcasing MIT-CQE’s latest quantum science and engineering research. Industrial Members of MIT’s QSEC engage with MIT students and faculty across the Institute and gain insight into their latest research.
01-05-2022 | Now out in MIT News and Nature from MIT Prof. Martin Zwierlein and MIT’s Ultracold Quantum Gases Group, and MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms: “Crystallization of bosonic quantum Hall states in a rotating quantum gas” by Biswaroop Mukherjee, Airlia Shaffer, Parth B. Patel, Zhenjie Yan, Cedric C. Wilson, Valentin Crépel, Richard J. Fletcher & Martin Zwierlein.
01-01-2022 | Register now for ‘iQuHACK 2022’, a quantum computing hackathon hosted by iQuise on January 28-30th, 2022. This year’s event will see participants programming quantum computers built by IonQ (trapped ions) as well as Quantum Inspire at QuTech (superconducting qubits). It’s a fully remote event, open to everyone, regardless of experience, and free to attend.
12-23-2021 | Now out in Nature Physics from MIT-CQE Director, MIT Prof. Will Oliver and the MIT Engineering Quantum Systems (EQuS) Group, in collaboration with MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and the Laboratory of Physical Sciences: “Probing quantum information propagation with out-of-time-ordered correlators” Jochen Braumüller, Amir Karamlou, Yariv Yanay, Bharath Kannan, David K. Kim, Morten Kjaergaard, Alexander Melville, Bethany Niedzielski, Youngkyu Sung, Antti Vepsäläinen, Roni Winik, Jonilyn Yoder, Terry P. Orlando, Simon Gustavsson, Charles Tahan & Will Oliver.
12-23-2021 | Check out the ‘News & Views’ feature in Nature Materials, from MIT-CQE member, MIT Prof. Mingda Li & Clemson University Prof. Yao Wang: “One-way express ticket to quantum criticality.”
12-21-2021 | The Quantum Systems Accelerator interviews quantum science and engineering pioneer, MIT-CQE Director and QSA Technology Coordinator, MIT Prof. Will Oliver.
12-20-2021 | Check out the latest in arXiv from MIT Prof. Pablo Jarillo-Herrero and the Jarillo-Herrero Lab: “Magic-Angle Multilayer Graphene: A Robust Family of Moiré Superconductors” by Jeong Min Park, Yuan Cao, Liqiao Xia, Shuwen Sun, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, and Pablo Jarillo-Herrero.
12-16-2021 | Check out the latest in MIT News and Nano Lett. from MIT Prof. Paola Cappellaro and the MIT Quantum Engineering Group in collaboration with the University of Waterloo: “SARS-CoV-2 Quantum Sensor Based on Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers in Diamond” by Changhao Li, Rouhollah Soleyman, Mohammad Kohandel, and Paola Cappellaro.
12-15-2021 | Check out the latest in Nature from MIT Prof. Pablo Jarillo-Herrero and the Jarillo-Herrero Group in collaboration with the Yacoby/Vishwanath groups at Harvard Physics: “Fractional Chern insulators in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene” by Yonglong Xie, Andrew T. Pierce, Jeong Min Park, Daniel E. Parker, Eslam Khalaf, Patrick Ledwith, Yuan Cao, Seung Hwan Lee, Shaowen Chen, Patrick R. Forrester, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Ashvin Vishwanath, Pablo Jarillo-Herrero & Amir Yacoby.
12-14-2021 | Check out the latest in Harvard Business Review from MIT-CQE Director, MIT Prof. Will Oliver: “Quantum Computing for Business Leaders” by Jonathan Ruane, Andrew McAfee and Will Oliver.
12-13-2021 | Now out in the current edition of Nature Photonics from MIT Prof. Dirk Englund and the MIT Quantum Photonics Laboratory in collaboration with MITRE Corp. and Sandia National Laboratories: “High-speed programmable photonic circuits in a cryogenically compatible, visible–near-infrared 200 mm CMOS architecture” by Mark Dong, Genevieve Clark, Andrew J. Leenheer, Matthew Zimmermann, Daniel Dominguez, Adrian J. Menssen, David Heim, Gerald Gilbert, Dirk Englund & Matt Eichenfield.
12-13-2021 | Now out in Optics Express from MIT Prof. Dirk Englund and the MIT Quantum Photonics Group, “A vertically-loaded diamond microdisk resonator spin-photon interface” by Yuqin Sophia Duan, Kevin C. Chen, Dirk Englund, and Matthew E. Trusheim.
12-07-2021 | Check out the Nature Physics Insight feature on ultracold atom technologies from MIT Prof. Martin Zwierlein and Chris Vale of Swinburne University of Technology: “Spectroscopic probes of quantum gases.”
12-03-2021 | Check out the Tutorial in PRX Quantum from MIT-CQE member, MIT Prof. Isaac Chuang: “Grand Unification of Quantum Algorithms” by John M. Martyn, Zane M. Rossi, Andrew K. Tan, and Isaac L. Chuang.
11-30-2021 | ‘Optics in 2021’, the special December issue of Optics & Photonics News highlights exciting peer-reviewed optics research that has emerged over the past year’ including “Nanoscale Optical Field Samplers with Attosecond Resolution” by MIT Researchers: Mina Bionta, Marco Turchetti, Yujia Yang, Dario Cattozzo Mor, Karl Berggren and Phillip D. Keathley, in collaboration with Felix Ritzkowsky and Franz X. Kärtner, Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY) and Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, Hamburg, Germany and William P. Putnam, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
11-29-2021 | Now out the focus review article in Nature Nanotechnology describing the fundamental principles and practical applications of quantum coherence in nanoscale systems – a new field termed as “quantum-coherent nanoscience.” by MIT-CQE Director, MIT Prof. Will Oliver with global colleagues Andreas J. Heinrich, Lieven Vandersypen, Arzhang Ardavan, Roberta Sessoli, Daniel Loss, Ania Bleszynski Jayich, Joaquin Fernandez-Rossier, Arne Laucht, and Andrea Morello.
11-18-2021 | Named as a top ten finalist for the Physics World 2021 Breakthrough of the Year, MIT-CQE member, Prof. Wolfgang Ketterle and his colleagues were honored for their work in “independently observing Pauli blocking in ultracold gases of fermionic atoms.”
11-18-21 | MIT-CQE member, Prof. Dirk Englund is named to the Class of 2022 Optica Fellows. Prof. Englund is recognized for “his pioneering contributions to quantum photonics and integrated photonics for applications in optical computing.”
11-18-21 | MIT physicists have observed the Pauli exclusion principle, or Pauli blocking, in a completely new way: They’ve found that the effect can suppress how a cloud of atoms scatters light. MIT News features MIT Prof. Wolfgang Ketterle and the MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms recent work and paper published in Science.
11-17-21 | “This new startup has built a record-breaking 256-qubit quantum computer. QuEra Computing, launched by physicists at Harvard and MIT, is trying a different quantum approach to tackle impossibly hard computational tasks.”
11-16-21 | MIT News profiles MIT-CQE member, Prof. Bilge Yidiz! “Prof. Yildiz, MIT’s Breene M. Kerr (1951) Professor in the departments of Nuclear Science and Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, studies the behavior of ions in materials, particularly on surfaces and interfaces.”
11-15-21 | Now out in Nature and MIT News, “MIT physicists and colleagues have demonstrated an exotic form of superconductivity in a new material the team synthesized only about a year ago. Although predicted in the 1960s, until now this type of superconductivity has proven difficult to stabilize. Further, the scientists found that the same material can potentially be manipulated to exhibit yet another, equally exotic form of superconductivity. The work has potential applications in quantum computing, and introduces a new way to plumb the secrets of superconductivity.”
11-01-2021 | MIT Prof. and CQE member Peter Shor is named to the 2022 class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society for contributions to quantum computing, in particular quantum algorithms and quantum information theory.
10-28-21 | “MIT researchers develop a new way to control and measure energy levels in a diamond crystal; could improve qubits in quantum computers.” MIT News features MIT Prof. Paola Cappellaro and the Quantum Engineering Group’s recent work and paper, published recently in Physical Review Letters as the ‘editors suggestion.’
10-22-2021 | Check out the latest in Phys. Rev. Applied from MIT-CQE Director and MIT Prof. Will Oliver and the Engineering Quantum Systems Group, in collaboration with the Aspuru-Guzik group at the University of Toronto: “Quantum Computer-Aided Design: Digital Quantum Simulation of Quantum Processors” by Thi Ha Kyaw, Tim Menke, Sukin Sim, Abhinav Anand, Nicolas Sawaya, Will Oliver, Gian Giacomo Guerreschi, and Alán Aspuru-Guzik.
10-21-21 | MIT-CQE members Scott Hamilton, Don Boroson, and P. Ben Dixon from MIT Lincoln Laboratory named 2021 R&D World 100 award winners for their work: “Free-space Quantum Network Link Architecture.”
10-13-2021 | MIT-CQE members, Prof. Lindley Winslow and Prof. Bilge Yildiz named American Physical Society Fellows for 2021
09-28-2021 | The Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award 2021 goes to Pablo Jarillo-Herrero for his work on two-dimensional quantum materials.
09-09-21 | Out in Physics@MIT Journal, MIT Researchers from the Vuletic Group have built an atomic clock that measures not a cloud of randomly oscillating atoms, as state-of-the-art designs measure now, but instead atoms that have been quantumly entangled. The atoms are correlated in a way that is impossible according to the laws of classical physics, and that allows the scientists to measure the atoms’ vibrations more accurately.
08-27-21 | NIMS Award 2021 jointly awarded to Prof. Pablo Jarillo-Herrero for “Pioneering work of new quantum physics by twistronics.”
08-20-21 | Hear from MIT Lincoln Laboratory’s Dr. Mollie Schwartz, a Quantum Systems Accelerator Thrust Lead, and others about their research leading to the electronics roadmap for different qubit technologies.
08-19-21 | A peculiar state of matter in layers of semiconductors: In a study that could benefit quantum computing, MIT researchers Prof. Mingda Li and the Quantum Measurement Group show a superlattice embedded with nanodots may be immune from dissipating energy to the environment.
08-10-21 | Yuan Cao receives the McMillan Award, the most prestigious award for young condensed matter physicists.
07-26-2021 | Congratulations to Aziza Almanakly, awarded the Clare Boothe Luce Graduate Fellowship for Women.
07-21-2021 | Check out the latest in MIT News and Nature from MIT Prof. Pablo Jarillo-Herrero and the Jarillo-Herrero Lab: Pauli-limit violation and re-entrant superconductivity in moiré graphene, by Yuan Cao, Jeong Min Park, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi & Pablo Jarillo-Herrero.
07-16-2021 | Congratulations to Pai Peng, awarded the prestigious MathWorks PhD Fellowship! He is a member of MIT Prof. Paola Cappellaro’s Quantum Engineering Group.
07-13-2021 | MIT Prof. Dirk Englund and MIT Quantum Photonics Group introduces an algorithm for universal transformations on the modes of a dielectric slab via out-of-plane phase modulation, plus a high-fidelity error correction scheme. Combined, these result in a low-loss, compact alternative to traditional MZI meshes.
06-24-2021 | Prof. Riccardo Comin and Prof. Mingda Li receive 2021 US Department of Energy early career awards.
6-22-2021 | June 22nd 1:00-3:00 PM EDT: ILP and CQE Webinar: Quantum Computing Opportunities and Challenges.
6-18–2021 | Physicists bring human-scale object to near standstill, reaching a quantum state.
6-16–2021 | MIT researchers demonstrate a way to sharply reduce errors in two-qubit gates, a significant advance toward fully realizing quantum computation.
6-8-2021 | QS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2021-22.
06-04-2021 | Check out the latest in Nano Lett. from MIT Prof. Paola Cappellaro and the Quantum Engineering Group: “Nanoscale Vector AC Magnetometry with a Single Nitrogen-Vacancy Center in Diamond” by Guoqing Wang, Yi-Xiang Liu, Yuan Zhu, and Paola Cappellaro.
5-19–2021 | MIT turns “magic” material into versatile electronic devices.
5-6-2021 |Celebrating the 40-year anniversary of the Physics of Computation Conference. Experience QC40 with Prof. Peter Shor’s keynote (49:35), and live panel with Prof. Isaac Chaung and Prof. Will Oliver (2:15:30).
4-29-2021 | MIT researchers develop compact on-chip device for detecting electric-field waveforms with attosecond time resolution.
4-14-2021 | Will Oliver awarded 2021 Faculty Research Innovation Fellowship (FRIF)
4-13-2021 | Aziza Almanakly awarded 2021 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship
4-1-2021 | Owen Medeiros awarded NDSEG fellowship
4-1-2021 | Emma Batson and Owen Medeiros awarded NSF fellowship
2-11-2021 | Nanowire could provide a stable, easy-to-make superconducting transistor. Inspired by decades-old MIT research, the new technology could boost quantum computers and other superconducting electronics.
2-1-2021 | Physicists create tunable superconductivity in twisted graphene “nanosandwich.” Structure may reveal conditions needed for high-temperature superconductivity.
1-31 -2021 | CQE Sponsors iQuHACK (interdisciplinary Quantum HACKathon)
1-19-2021 | Electrical engineer William Oliver develops technology to enable reliable quantum computing at scale
01-04-2021 | Nature Physics with MIT Prof. Paola Cappellaro and the Quantum Engineering Group: “Floquet prethermalization in dipolar spin chains” by Pai Peng, Chao Yin, Xiaoyang Huang, Chandrasekhar Ramanathan & Paola Cappellaro.
12-14-2020 | “Universal Nonadiabatic Control of Small-Gap Superconducting Qubits,” published in APS Physical Review
12-10-2020 | Quantum Engineering Explained: MIT News feature with Engineering Quantum Systems Group
10-30-2020 | The Center for Quantum Engineering (CQE) Kick-off Symposium
10-30-2020 | Doc Bedard Fellowship announced with Kyle Debry, Sujit Rao, and Jennifer Wang 2020-2023 fellows and Chris McNally 2019-2022 fellow
10-8-2020 | “Generating spatially entangled itinerant photons with waveguide quantum electrodynamics,” published in Science Advances
9-23-2020 | “Comparison of dielectric loss in titanium nitride and aluminum superconducting resonators” published in Applied Physics Letters
9-3-2020 | “Two-qubit spectroscopy of spatiotemporally correlated quantum noise in superconducting qubits” published in the inaugural issue of PRX Quantum
08-28-2020 | Professor Will Oliver selected to serve on the National Quantum Advisory Committee
08-26-2020 | MIT partners with national labs on two new quantum research centers
08-10-2020 | “Qubit by Qubit” introduces high school students to quantum computing through a week-long summer camp and a year-long course
08-03-2020 | Study finds quantum entanglement could, in principle, give a slight advantage in the game of blackjack
07-29-2020 | “Giant atoms” enable quantum processing and communication in one
07-23-2020 | MIT researchers develop integrated lightwave electronic circuits to detect the phase of ultrafast optical fields
07-08-2020 | MIT engineers develop a hybrid process that connects photonics with “artificial atoms,” to produce the largest quantum chip of its type
06-16-2020 | Remote learning: 6.070, Electronics Project Lab
05-15-2020 | Professor Paola Cappellaro, among leaders, honored as “Committed to Caring.”
05-08-2020 | Peter Shor, 2020 recipient of BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award
04-08-2020 | New “refrigerator” super-cools molecules to nanokelvin temperatures
03-02-2020 | Keysight partners with Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center for Quantum Engineering to endow the establishment of a new 64-qubit quantum computing lab
02-18-2020 | A new study suggests a path to more efficient error correction, which may help make quantum computers and sensors more practical
02-11-2020 | Quantum Computing @ MIT: The Past, Present, and Future of the Second Revolution in Computing
01-13-2020 | Variational quantum unsampling on a quantum photonic processor
12-12-2019 | Newly synthesized compound of iron and tin atoms in 1-to-1 ratio, “ideal” kagome metal electronic structure
11-28-2019 | Circuit design offers a path to “spintronic” devices that use little electricity and generate practically no heat
11-23-2019 | Megan Yamoah, Billy Woltz, and Francisca Vasconcelos of the Engineering Quantum Systems Group awarded Rhodes Scholarships
05-29-2019 | Senthil Todadri and Xiao-Gang Wen to study highly entangled quantum matter in the Simons Collaboration on Ultra-Quantum Matter
04-26-2019 | Peter Shor wins 2018 Micius Quantum Prize
04-03-2019 | New facilities will keep Lincoln Laboratory at the forefront of advanced prototyping
03-15-2019 | Quantum sensing method measures minuscule magnetic fields
02-11-2019 | Professor Dirk Englund awarded 2019 Bose Research Fellow Grant for work on “novel electronic fluids for high-speed logic in quantum materials”
01-31-2019 | Technique could boost resolution of tissue imaging as much as tenfold
12-04-2018 | National Academies releases its report, “Quantum Computing: Progress and Prospects”
11-08-2018 | Improving materials from the nanoscale up
10-15-2018 | MIT will reshape itself to shape the future, investing $1 billion to address the rapid evolution of computing and AI
10-12-2018 | Center for Theoretical Physics professors earn DOE Quantum Information Science Awards
10-12-2018 | MIT-Germany and the University of Stuttgart extend cooperation
10-04-2018 | Symposium and open house make MIT.nano’s Grand Opening Celebration a memorable day
09-25-2018 | PhD student David Layden in the Quantum Engineering Group advances ultra-sensitive quantum sensors
09-05-2018 | Scientists find a theoretical optical device may have uses in quantum computing
