Harvard weighs in on Google’s ‘quantum supremacy’
Google engineers claimed to have created a quantum computer that exhibited “quantum supremacy.” The Gazette spoke with Harvard Quantum Initiative Co-Director Mikhail Lukin about the achievement, about similar work at Harvard.
Alvin Powell
• harvard
Oct. 29, 2019 • ~15 min
Oct. 29, 2019 • ~15 min
Harvard scientists use optical tweezers to capture ultracold molecules
Using precisely focused lasers that act as “optical tweezers,” Harvard scientists have been able to capture and control individual ultracold molecules – the eventual building-blocks of a quantum computer – and study the collisions between them in more detail than ever before.
Peter Reuell
• harvard
Oct. 2, 2019 • ~6 min
Oct. 2, 2019 • ~6 min
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