June 26, 2025 | APS
Manfra featured in APS webinar
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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.
October 7, 2024 | Purdue University
Purdue quantum photonics center established with $13.9 million in DOE funding
Purdue University has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to lead the Quantum Photonics Integrated Design Center (QuPIDC) Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) which will lead the push toward the frontiers of quantum photonics research.
September 16, 2024 | Purdue News
Leaders in chips, quantum and bioscience demonstrate Indiana-Illinois corridor technology advancement and innovation at Purdue-hosted conference
Leaders from industry, government, academia and national laboratories met at Purdue and discussed how the regional collaboration among Purdue, Argonne and the University of Illinois is building an unrivaled strategic innovation ecosystem.
September 16, 2024 | Gizmodo.com
These levitating nanodiamonds are the world’s smallest disco balls
Ultra-small levitating diamonds could help illuminate the relationship between quantum mechanics and gravity.