Quantum Physics Experimentalist

QUANT-NET consortium seeks to establish a distributed quantum computing network

January 8, 2024

Members of Quant-Net

QUANT-NET researchers Erhan Saglamyurek, Hartmut Häffner, Inder Monga and Wenji Wu demonstrate their ion-trap quantum processor, a key subsystem in the network testbed connecting Häffner’s UC Berkeley physics lab to Berkeley Lab.

Today’s internet distributes classical bits and bytes of information over global, even interstellar, distances. The quantum internet of tomorrow, on the other hand...

UC Berkeley and IQM Quantum Computers launch partnership to develop advanced quantum processor technologies

December 17, 2023

quantum type computer with writing over it

Berkeley Quantum Works (BQW) at the University of California, Berkeley has entered into a partnership agreement with IQM Quantum Computers (IQM), the global leader in building on-premise quantum computers, to usher in a new era of collaboration in quantum information science (QIS) through the development and operation of the next generation of advanced...

Team led by Alp Sipahigil receives DOE center award

September 18, 2023

A phonon-engineered superconducting qubit

Image of a phonon-engineered superconducting qubit.

A team of eleven investigators at LBNL led by Assistant Professor Alp Sipahigil have been awarded $8,000,000 by DOE to develop ultrahigh frequency phononics for next generation superconducting...

Success Generating Two-Qutrit Entangling Gates With High Fidelity

July 6, 2023

Illustration of two qutrit-entangling gates

Technical illustration of microwave-activated two-qutrit entangling gates at fixed frequency and coupling (Credit: Noah Goss/Berkeley Lab)

An interdisciplinary team at the Advanced Quantum Testbed (AQT) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the...