superconductors

IBM and Japan’s government-backed technology institute are teaming up to develop next-gen quantum computers. The goal is to deliver 10,000 qubits—75x more than current quantum computers that, at most, deliver 133 qubits. This project is…

There’s a new way to make and manipulate a class of high-temperature semiconductors, and an international team, including Rutgers University–New Brunswick, is front and center of the process. The result could be the ability to create…

Technology Review published its annual worst technology list for 2023. One of the year's tragic, entirely preventable disasters was the Titan submersible diving to see the original disaster of the Titanic. Five died because of unwarranted…

Graphene has remarkable properties, especially when you stack up multiple sheets. Should those sheets be twisted at specific angles relative to each other, they exhibit a plethora of exotic identities. These materials, known as moiré…

Baidu unveiled its first superconducting quantum computer that fully integrates hardware, software, and applications. It also introduced the world's first all-platform quantum hardware-software integration solution giving access to various…

When researchers pulled sheets of single carbon atoms away from graphite to make graphene--the exfoliation technique paved the way for a wide range of two-dimensional materials with distinct electrical and physical characteristics for the…

High-precision measurements provide important clues about processes that impair superconductor efficiency.  Superconductivity depends on the presence of electrons bound together in a Cooper pair. Two electrons become coupled because of…

It was just a matter of time before private quantum-computing companies began to hit the public markets. Rigetti & Co., Inc. entered into a definitive merger agreement with Supernova Partners Acquisition Company II, Ltd. The transaction…

While we transmit electricity at high voltages (66 kV or above) to reduce the energy loss from long-distance transmission, electricity transmission and distribution (T&D) losses average about 5% of the electricity that is transmitted…

Unconventional superconductors were first reported in 1979. Since then, physicists have been working to develop a theory for these classes of materials that don’t seem to follow conventional electron-ion interactions at the heart of…