Five hubs launched to ensure UK benefits from quantum future

A major new research hub led by the University of Cambridge and UCL aims to harness quantum technology to improve early diagnosis and treatment of disease.

Cambridge University News • cambridge
July 26, 2024 ~6 min

Diamonds and rust help unveil ‘impossible’ quasi-particles

Researchers have discovered magnetic monopoles – isolated magnetic charges – in a material closely related to rust, a result that could be used to power

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Dec. 5, 2023 ~6 min


Simulations of ‘backwards time travel’ can improve scientific experiments

Physicists have shown that simulating models of hypothetical time travel can solve experimental problems that appear impossible to solve using standard physics.

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Oct. 12, 2023 ~6 min

Switching ‘spin’ on and off (and up and down) in quantum materials at room temperature

Researchers have found a way to control the interaction of light and quantum ‘spin’ in organic semiconductors, that works even at room temperature.

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Aug. 16, 2023 ~7 min

Researchers devise a new path toward ‘quantum light’

Researchers have theorised a new mechanism to generate high-energy ‘quantum light’, which could be used to investigate new properties of matter at the atomic

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Feb. 2, 2023 ~4 min

Professor Suchitra Sebastian to receive the Schmidt Science Polymaths Award

Cambridge physicist Professor Suchitra Sebastian to join group of ten recently tenured professors named to Polymath Program, awarded up to $2.5 million each

Cambridge University News • cambridge
June 30, 2022 ~6 min

‘Back to basics’ approach helps unravel new phase of matter

A new phase of matter, thought to be understandable only using quantum physics, can be studied with far simpler classical methods.

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Sept. 27, 2021 ~6 min

Light used to detect quantum information stored in 100,000 nuclear quantum bits

Researchers have found a way to use light and a single electron to communicate with a cloud of quantum bits and sense their behaviour, making it possible to

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Feb. 15, 2021 ~5 min


Quantum projects launched to solve universe’s mysteries

Researchers will use cutting-edge quantum technologies to transform our understanding of the universe and answer key questions such as the nature of dark

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Jan. 13, 2021 ~6 min

Hidden symmetry could be key to more robust quantum systems, researchers find

Researchers have found a way to protect highly fragile quantum systems from noise, which could aid in the design and development of new quantum devices, such

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Dec. 9, 2020 ~5 min

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