New Coupler Design for Quantum Annealers
Quantum annealing machines of the type manufactured by D-Wave Systems have made major advances in the last few years. A recent demonstration by Google showed that the D-Wave machine could solve a certain type of problem 100,000,000 times faster than comparable methods...
Collaborative research explores why llamas could change the future for HIV diagnostics
New interdisciplinary research from LCN-based i-sense explores the potentially important role llamas and camelids could play in developing tools to detect early stage HIV. HIV currently affects more than 34 million people worldwide and is constantly evolving, which...
Microwave Spectroscopy of a Carbon Nanotube Charge Qubit
The use of quantum dots to define charge and spin qubits is well established in the field of quantum information processing. Quantum dot charge qubits are attractive because of the possibility of fast qubit control but are sensitive to charge noise which can result in...
Encapsulation and Polymerisation of White Phosphorus Inside Single-wall Carbon Nanotubes
Single-walled carbon nanotubes have been used to encapsulate many types of materials since their discovery, but now other nanostructured phosphorus allotropes are attracting considerable attention as well. The white phosphorus allotrope, which consists of tetrahedral...