Diraq and SQC have secured contracts with US defence agency DARPA for a benchmarking program designed to find the companies capable of achieving utility-scale within the next decade.
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UNSW engineers have demonstrated a well-known quantum thought experiment in the real world. Their findings deliver a new and more robust way to perform quantum computations – and they have important implications for error correction, one of the biggest obstacles standing between them and a working quantum computer.
“No one has ever seen an actual cat in a state of being both dead and alive at the same time, but people use the Schrödinger’s cat metaphor to describe a superposition of quantum states that differ by a large amount,” says UNSW Professor Andrea Morello, leader of the team that conducted the research, published recently in the journal Nature Physics
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A team of UNSW quantum engineers has demonstrated a world-first: the quantum entanglement of two electrons, each bound to a different atom of phosphorus, placed inside a silicon quantum computer chip
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The UNSW Night-time solar team (Team lead: Professor Ned Ekins-Daukes) have demonstrated a way to generate electricity from the emission of thermal radiation into the cold night sky using a new type of semiconductor device called a thermoradiative diode.
Using stem cell biology and tissue engineering, Dr Ann Cho from USYD has invented a sophisticated lab-grown human brain model enabling more comprehensive neuroscientific research than traditional animal models. These innovative tissue-engineered models mimic human brain physiology and pathology, enabling studies of COVID-19 infection on the brain, and contribute to neurodegeneration studies.
Professor Anita Ho-Baillie from USYD is looking beyond silicon solar to create the next generation of solar cells, by harnessing metal halide perovskites, which have strong light absorption properties. They are easy to be produced and are printable. Used in tandem with silicon, multi-layer perovskite solar cells are more energy efficient.
Source: UNSW, USYD, Australian Museum
