quantum

  1. A man in black gloves and laser safety glasses stands at a crowded optical table with various elements attached, some with wires running to them.

    $9M for exploring the fundamental limits of entangled quantum sensor networks

  2. Composite image conceptually depicting quantum oscillations.

    ‘Really bizarre and exciting’: The quantum oscillations are coming from inside

  3. U-M quantum testbed enables remote experiments

  4. The molecule appears as a cylinder made up of octahedra, dense in the middle of the lithium and hydrogen atoms but becoming more diffuse. The cylinder is cut away along one edge, showing the core of each atom. The lithium is orange at the center, fading to yellow, green and then blue where the octahedra become more dispersed. At the edges and between the molecules, the octahedra are purple. The hydrogen is blue at the center.

    Quantum chemistry: Making key simulation approach more accurate

  5. A man gestures toward a complex network of wires, plugs and metal pipes inside a cabinet-like container.

    Microscopes can now watch materials go quantum with liquid helium

  6. Two men in dark laser safety glasses stand behind an optical table full of silver and black optical components to guide the laser beam.

    Nano-switch achieves first directed, gated flow of chargeless quantum information carriers

  7. A flat, rectangular black sheet has a ripple that travels diagonally from the sheet's lower left to upper right. The ripple is tallest near the lower left corner and shrinks as it gets closer to the opposite corner, following a power-law decay. A yellow line highlights the peaks on the black sheet. An orange screen is behind the black sheet, showing the decay in one dimension, as if it were the shadow of the ripples on the black sheet.

    How an in-between quantum state could boost future technologies

  8. A silvery, metallic quasicrystal grain resembles a 12-sided die used in tabletop games. A scale bar shows the diameter of the grain is 0.94 millimeters.

    First quantum-mechanical model of quasicrystals reveals why they exist

  9. The layers of semiconductor look like shiny black marbles stacked together, each about five marbles thick. These are separated by empty space. The representations of electron orbitals are scattered over the surfaces of the layers. Ground states look like ellipsoids about 3 marbles in length and one marble in width and height, while excited states look like ellipsoids that have been cinched around the middle, roughly 10 marbles long and 2 marbles in width and height. Dots at the central point of each represent holes.

    Magnetic switch traps quantum information carriers in one dimension

  10. Caps in brassy gold and silver tones are bolted onto the metal machine, with blue and red wires running between.

    Toward quantum for the real world: Photonic team in running for center-level funding

  11. Looking down a tube toward brightly lit components shining silver, surrounded by a gold-tone ring secured with 20 bolts.

    $15M for game theory with AI agents, quantum semiconductors for microelectronics and photonics

  12. Honey, I shrunk the quantum sensor

  13. U-M Block M Logo

    Quantum light unlocks nature’s tiny secrets

  14. The molecular beam epitaxy system housed in the Goldman Group MBE laboratory, which can build materials with high precision. It is among the facilities that will contribute to the center's explorations of future materials. Image credit: Evan Dougherty, Michigan Engineering

    $18M to advance materials research for quantum computing, sustainable plastics and more

  15. Abstract illustration intended to depict quantum computing. Image courtesy: Office of Research

    $55M quantum institute launches at U-M to accelerate research, education

  16. An array of membranes, each probed by laser beams that are entangled with one another, could enable miniaturized yet highly accurate devices for measuring acceleration, dark matter and more. Image credit: Ehsan Faridi and Ehsan Keshavarzi, Inmywork Studio

    Quantum entanglement could make accelerometers and dark matter sensors more accurate

  17. An artist's impression of attosecond clocking. Electrons, represented in blue and orange, collide to produce bursts of light that reveal the interactions that govern quantum materials and the quantum information they support. Image credit: Brad Baxley (parttowhole.com)

    Seeing electron movement at fastest speed ever could help unlock next-level quantum computing

  18. The semiconductor nanosheets in the water-cooled copper mount turn an infrared laser pulse into an effectively unipolar terahertz pulse. The team says that their terahertz emitter could be made to fit inside a matchbox. Credit: Christian Meineke, Huber Lab, University of Regensburg

    Emulating impossible ‘unipolar’ laser pulses paves the way for processing quantum information

  19. Ping Wang, a postdoctoral researcher in electrical engineering and computer science, checks the monolayer hexagonal boron nitride/graphene samples grown by an ultrahigh temperature MBE system. Image credit: Brenda Ahearn

    Graphene-hBN breakthrough to spur new LEDs, quantum computing

  20. Enrico Rinaldi, research scientist in the University of Michigan Department of Physics, is using two simulation methods to solve quantum matrix models which can describe what the gravity of a black hole looks like. In this image, a pictorial representation of curved space time connects the two simulation methods. On the bottom, a deep learning method is represented by graphs of points (neural network), while the quantum circuit method on top is represented by lines, squares and circles (qubits and gates). The simulation methods merge with each side of the curved space time to represent the fact that gravity properties come out of the simulations. Rinaldi is based in Tokyo and hosted by the Theoretical Quantum Physics Laboratory at the Cluster for Pioneering Research at RIKEN, Wako. Image credit: Enrico Rinaldi/U-M, RIKEN and A. Silvestri.

    What’s inside a black hole? U-M physicist uses quantum computing, machine learning to find out