Yale News
A look back at The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper days, a town hall-styled meeting on racial inequality, and community “Big Read” discussions of Yale faculty member Claudia Rankine’s award-winning poetry collection “Citizen” are among the highlights of this year’s International Festival of Arts & Ideas,...
Yale News
As the world contemplates the possibilities of quantum technologies, Yale’s expertise in quantum information research continues to have an impact in the scientific community and beyond.
Fully useful, practical quantum computers would have the potential to usher in computation speeds that are orders...
Popular Science
Wednesday, April 25, 2018
For decades, the promise of quantum computing has tickled the neurons of drug-makers, spies, and tech CEOs. Such a machine, if perfected, would speed up drug discoveries, decode ciphers, and help AIs parse our digital data. This new brain hinges on the bendy concept of superposition, the idea that...
Yale News
Yale’s latest work expanding the reach of quantum information science is actually a game of quantum pitch and catch.
Yale News
Yale scientists used laser light to gain access to long-lived sound waves in crystalline solids as the basis for information storage. The result was published online April 2 in the journal Nature Physics.
Yale News
Astronomer and board game designer Dante Lauretta will investigate space exploration and board games in the Yale Quantum Institute’s fifth event in its series of nontechnical talks about science and the humanities.
Yale News
Monday, November 20, 2017
Yale scientists Hui Cao, Peter Raymond, and Karen Seto have been named by their peers as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
They will be among 396 members elevated to the rank of fellow at the Feb. 17 AAAS annual meeting in Austin, Texas. Each honoree will be...
Yale News
Wednesday, November 15, 2017
For its next event in its series of nontechnical talks, the Yale Quantum Institute invites attendees to bring along some yarn for crocheting.
In the talk, titled “Crocheting Adventures with the Hyperbolic Planes,” Cornell University mathematician Daina Taimina will demonstrate how to make a...
MIT Technology Review
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
A startup called Quantum Circuits plans to compete with the likes of IBM, Google, Microsoft, and Intel to bring quantum computing out of the lab and into the wider world. There’s one good reason to think it might be able to beat them all.
That’s because Quantum Circuits was founded by Robert...
New York Times
Monday, November 13, 2017
SAN FRANCISCO — Robert Schoelkopf is at the forefront of a worldwide effort to build the world’s first quantum computer. Such a machine, if it can be built, would use the seemingly magical principles of quantum mechanics to solve problems today’s computers never could.
