Engineers Employ AI to Manage Fusion Power Integration into the Grid. Credit: Google DeepMindDeep within the confines of the tokamak, a toroidal chamber sculpted to embrace the marvels of nuclear fusion, hydrogen atoms collide with immense force, birthing a searing plasma hotter than the sun.Nuclear fusion is key to sustainable energy, leveraging hydrogen isotopes,...
The BV100 nuclear battery, smaller than a dime, has dimensions of just 15 x 15 x 15 millimeters. Credit: Betavolt.A Chinese startup, Betavolt, has revealed a groundbreaking development in nuclear batteries. The BV100, a tiny atomic energy battery the size of a small coin, claims to provide a continuous power supply for up to...
Credit: TS2 Space.Coherence stands as a pillar of effective communication, whether it is in writing, speaking, or information processing. This principle extends to quantum bits or qubits, the building blocks of quantum computing.A Quantum Leap in Coherence TimeA team led by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has achieved a significant...
A donut-shaped magnetic confinement device called a tokamak is one of the leading designs for a working fusion power generator, with many such experiments running worldwide. Credit: Christopher Roux, EUROfusion Consortium, CC BYOur society faces the grand difficulty of offering sustainable, secure, and affordable forms of generating energy while trying to reduce CO2 emissions to net...
Credit: The Quantum InsideWith dozens of start-ups in the emerging field of quantum computing, alongside giants like IBM, Microsoft, Amazon, and Google, the possibility of producing revenue from what is essentially a research and development venture is daunting. Publicly-traded quantum start-ups such as IonQ and D-Wave Systems, which do not have a non-quantum line...
Along each of the three axes of measurement, a mechanical accelerometer is connected to the reference mirror of the atom interferometer, resulting in a classic/quantum hybridization that permits continual acceleration measurement with an ultralow proclivity. Measurements of the three vector components are utilized to determine the acceleration vector in any direction. The sensor is...
An abstract depiction of a data channel. Credit: spainter_vfx / iStock.In July this year, a group in China showed that it has the world's most powerful quantum computer, finally leapfrogging Google, which declared to have achieved quantum supremacy back in 2019. Since then, China was touting a super-advanced 66-qubit quantum supercomputer called "Zuchongzhi" as...
Even though conventional processors have bested Google’s Sycamore chip, they won’t hold their lead for longSuperfast algorithm place crimp in 2019 claim that Google's machine had achieved "quantum supremacy."If the quantum computing era dawned three years earlier, its rising sun might have ducked behind a cloud. In 2019, Google scientists claimed they had passed...
Single-photon emission by a self-assembled GaN/AlN quantum dot. Credit: J. StachurskiTo achieve quantum technology, we need to create a non-classical source of lights that can produce a single photon at a time and accomplish this on-demand. Researchers at EPFL have now developed one of these single-photon emitter that can operate at room temperature. Based...
Schematics of Josephson junction device. Credit: POSTECHA POSTECH research team led by Professor Gil-Ho Lee and Gil Young Cho (Department of Physics). Has created a platform that can control the properties of solid materials with light and measure them.Distinguished for establishing a platform to manage and measure the properties of materials in numerous ways...
