Recent News
University secures federal funding to enable advanced quantum research
Tue, 12 Mar 2024
The funding supports the acquisition of a state-of-the-art transmission electron microscope to accelerate research in quantum information science.
Continue ReadingNew strategy reveals ‘full chemical complexity’ of quantum decoherence
Mon, 18 Dec 2023
The findings can be used to design molecules with custom quantum coherence properties, laying the chemical foundation for emerging quantum technologies.
Continue ReadingNew tools will help study quantum chemistry aboard the International Space Station
Wed, 15 Nov 2023
Rochester Professor Nicholas Bigelow helped develop experiments conducted at NASA’s Cold Atom Lab to probe the fundamental nature of the world around us.
Continue ReadingQuantum dots: Chemistry professor explains a Nobel Prize–winning discovery
Thu, 05 Oct 2023
The fruits of the recent Nobel laureates’ labor can be seen not only in high-end monitors and screens, but also in collaborative research across the sciences.
Continue ReadingA quantum leap in cooling atoms for better computers
Tue, 12 Sep 2023
A new grant will allow John Nichol and his team to study thermoelectricity to help develop more efficient quantum computers.
Continue ReadingCreating superconducting circuits
Wed, 21 Jun 2023
Rochester researchers led by Machiel Blok are formulating new techniques—including one that uses qudits instead of qubits—to improve superconducting circuits and make quantum computers that are more powerful and reliable. <a href="https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/quantum-computing-superconducting-circuits-qudits-561992/">This is how they qudit >></a>
Continue ReadingNew method to control electron spin paves the way for efficient quantum computers
Fri, 27 Jan 2023
The method, developed by researchers including John Nichol, an associate professor of physics, overcomes the limitations of electron spin resonance.
Continue ReadingQuest for elusive monolayers just got a lot simpler
Fri, 27 May 2022
Compared to long, tedious hours of scanning by undergraduates, a breakthrough technology can detect monolayers with 99.9 percent accuracy—in far less time and at a fraction of the cost.
Continue Reading