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2D Semiconductors found to be close-to-ideal Fractional Quantum Hall Platform

Illustration of the monolayer WSe2 hosting "composite fermions"
A monolayer semiconductor is found to be a close-to-ideal platform for fractional quantum Hall state—a quantum liquid that emerges under large perpendicular magnetic fields. The image illustrates monolayer WSe2 hosting “composite fermions,” a quasi-particle that forms due to the strong interactions between electrons and is responsible for the sequence of fractional quantum Hall states.

Columbia University researchers report that they have observed a quantum fluid known as the fractional quantum Hall states (FQHS), one of the most delicate phases of matter, for the first time in a monolayer 2D semiconductor. Their findings demonstrate the excellent intrinsic quality of 2D semiconductors and establish them as a unique test platform for future applications in quantum computing...

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Measuring a Tiny Quasiparticle is a major step forward for Semiconductor Technology

PL spectra of BN encapsulated monolayer WSe2 at 4.2 K. Credit: Nature Communications (2020). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-16934-x

A team of researchers led by Sufei Shi, an assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has uncovered new information about the mass of individual components that make up a promising quasiparticle, known as an exciton, that could play a critical role in future applications for quantum computing, improved memory storage, and more efficient energy conversion.

Published today in Nature Communications, the team’s work brings researchers one step closer to advancing the development of semiconductor devices by deepening their understanding of an atomically thin class of materials known as transitional metal dichal...

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Scientists ‘Teleport’ a Quantum Gate

This is network overview of the modular quantum architecture demonstrated in the new study. Credit: Yale University

This is network overview of the modular quantum architecture demonstrated in the new study.
Credit: Yale University

Yale University researchers have demonstrated one of the key steps in building the architecture for modular quantum computers: the “teleportation” of a quantum gate between two qubits, on demand.

The key principle behind this new work is quantum teleportation, a unique feature of quantum mechanics that has previously been used to transmit unknown quantum states between two parties without physically sending the state itself. Using a theoretical protocol developed in the 1990s, Yale researchers experimentally demonstrated a quantum operation, or “gate,” without relying on any direct interaction...

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Physics Treasure Hidden in a Wallpaper Pattern

A newly identified insulating material using the symmetry principles behind wallpaper patterns may provide a basis for quantum computing, according to an international team of researchers. This strontium-lead sample (Sr2Pb3) has a fourfold Dirac cone surface state, a set of four, two-dimensional electronic surface states that go away from a point in momentum space in straight lines. Credit: Image courtesy of Benjamin Wieder, Princeton University Department of Physics

A newly identified insulating material using the symmetry principles behind wallpaper patterns may provide a basis for quantum computing, according to an international team of researchers. This strontium-lead sample (Sr2Pb3) has a fourfold Dirac cone surface state, a set of four, two-dimensional electronic surface states that go away from a point in momentum space in straight lines. Credit: Image courtesy of Benjamin Wieder, Princeton University Department of Physics

An international team of scientists has discovered a new, exotic form of insulating material with a metallic surface that could enable more efficient electronics or even quantum computing...

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