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August 21, 2025 | Purdue College of Science

“Anyon transistors” reveal quantum-mechanical properties of coherent electron transport

The latest experiment from the Purdue group reported in Nature Communications clearly establishes that single electron interference is responsible for the observed behavior and demonstrates how finely controlled interferometers can be used to probe the quantum-mechanical properties of coherent electron transport in the quantum Hall regime, a tool the team calls an "anyon transistor."

July 17, 2025 | Purdue Engineering

Purdue-Technion postdoc available

Seeking top applicants to conduct quantum-focused, fundamental research projects under joint mentorship from principal investigators (PIs) from Purdue University and the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.

July 17, 2025 | Purdue Engineering

Li group makes quantum sensing breakthrough

This study advances our understanding of single spin defects in hBN and provides a pathway to enhance quantum sensing using hBN spin defects with nuclear spins as quantum memories.

June 26, 2025 | APS

Manfra featured in APS webinar

Register to attend the July 14 APS Webinar about the future of quantum materials and manufacturing.

June 3, 2025 | Physics World

Greene publishes on five-body recombination

Five-body recombination, in which five identical atoms form a tetramer molecule and a single free atom, could be useful for building molecules and potentially for modeling nuclear fusion. The research is described in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

June 2, 2025 | Purdue University

Summer school fosters knowledge and networking

Purdue recently hosted the Quantum Summer School for the Department of Energy’s Quantum Science Center (QSC), welcoming more than 100 graduate and undergraduate students, postdoctoral researchers and faculty from across the country.

March 11, 2025 | Purdue University

Manfra appointed to lead Purdue’s quantum institute

Quantum computing expert Michael Manfra has been named director of the Purdue Quantum Science and Engineering Institute (PQSEI), effective March 1.

February 25, 2025 | Purdue University News

New Microsoft Quantum qubit platform uses materials developed at Purdue

Microsoft Quantum published an article in Nature on Feb. 19 detailing recent advances in the measurement of quantum devices that will be needed to realize a topological quantum computer. Among the authors are Microsoft scientists and engineers who conduct research at Microsoft Quantum Lab West Lafayette.

December 6, 2024 | Purdue Engineering

Taming the interplay of light and matter to build a ‘playground’ for novel physics

Researchers have created a single platform that supports vastly different behaviors for electrons. That enhanced tunability creates more options for a wide variety of devices. You can even have multiple functionalities in the same device; in principle, for example, you could combine a material that is a conductor in one state and an insulator in another state.

October 21, 2024 | Purdue University News

Purdue researchers create orientation-independent magnetic field-sensing nanotube spin qubits

A team lead by Tongcan Li has developed patent-pending one-dimensional boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) containing spin qubits, or spin defects. The BNNTs are more sensitive in detecting off-axis magnetic fields at high resolution than traditional diamond tips used in scanning probe magnetic-field microscopes.