Quantum physicist Mikhail Lukin has been appointed a University Professor, Harvard’s highest faculty rank, the University announced Tuesday. Lukin will become the Joshua and Beth Friedman University ...

Quantum computers hold much promise to revolutionize the computing power of machines, leaving behind the classical computing technology when it comes to solving some complex problems current computers ...

The chance to channel your inner Obi Wan Kenobi might be closer than you think. Working within the Harvard Quantum Optics Center and the Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms, Harvard professor ...

In quantum computing, a quantum bit or “qubit” is one unit of information, just like a binary bit in classical computing. For more than two decades, physicists and engineers have shown the world that ...

Two independent teams of physicists, one in the US and the other in Germany, have measured magnetic fields on the nanoscale at room temperature for the first time. Both techniques rely on exploiting ...

A team in the US has created a simulator with 51 quantum bits – the largest of its kind so far. Mikhail Lukin at Harvard University announced the achievement on 14 July at the International Conference ...

This year's Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics will be awarded to Prof. Mikhail Lukin (Harvard University), one of the world's leading scientists in quantum optics and nanophotonics. His work ...

Scientists have investigated a new way of building a cage for electrons. An international team of scientists around Prof. Ignacio Cirac (Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching), and Prof.