The experimental setup of the ETH researchers. The trap chip is located inside the container underneath the silver cupola, in which a lens captures the light emitted by the trapped ions. Credit: ETH ...

At the Department of Ion Physics and Applied Physics at the University of Innsbruck, a research team has succeeded for the first time in storing electrically charged helium nanodroplets in an ion trap ...

Classiq Technologies, a leader in quantum computing software, and Alpine Quantum Technologies (AQT), a global pioneer in ion-trap quantum computing, today announced a strategic partnership to deliver ...

From the burning of wood to the action of medicines, the properties and behavior of matter are governed by the way chemical elements bond with one another. For many of the 118 known elements, the ...

Many quantum devices, from quantum sensors to quantum computers, use ions or charged atoms trapped with electric and magnetic fields as a hardware platform to process information. However, current ...

Quantinuum claims its H2 quantum processor initially features 32 fully-connected, high-fidelity qubits and a parallel gate zones architecture. Quantinuum’s H2 quantum processor initially features 32 ...

IonQ has announced the display of its ion trap technology—the foundation of its quantum computers—at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) According to Benzinga Pro, the stock has gained over 29% in the ...

Photo: Courtesy of Applied Biosystems/MDS Sciex THE Q TRAP SYSTEM Last October, long-time mass spectroscopist Gerard Hopfgartner got a new toy. Applied Biosystems (AB) and its partner, MDS Sciex, sent ...

The energy states of electrons in an atom follow the laws of quantum mechanics: they are not continuously distributed but restricted to certain well- defined values – this is also called quantisation.