The EQUSPACE consortium (Enabling New Quantum Frontiers with Spin Acoustics in Silicon) has received 3.2 million euros from the European Innovation Council's (EIC) Pathfinder Open funding program to advance the development of silicon-based quantum technologies. In addition to the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), the project brings together four other partners from three EU countries and convenes experts from the fields of spin qubits, optomechanics and atomic silicon modifications to develop a novel silicon-based quantum platform.

The advancement of laser manipulating and shaping technology enables the precise control of strong field electron dynamics on a subcycle time scale which helps to resolve this critical issue. Two-color fields, which are the coherent overlap of the strong driving laser fields and its second harmonic field acting as a perturbation, provide an easy-to-implement method to shape the tunnelling electron wavepacket and control the coherent radiation.

Quantum computers require extreme cooling to perform reliable calculations. One of the challenges preventing quantum computers from entering society is the difficulty of freezing the qubits to temperatures close to absolute zero. Now, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, and the University of Maryland, USA, have engineered a new type of refrigerator that can autonomously cool superconducting qubits to record low temperatures, paving the way for more reliable quantum computation.

A new technique can reset bits in quantum computers highly effectively, a critical task for successful quantum computing. The technique uses heat flow between different sections of a refrigerator to reset these “qubits,” the first time this method has been harnessed for a practical purpose. This method could lead to more reliable, less error-prone quantum computers.

As part of an international project consortium, Graz University of Technology has developed new measurement techniques and methods to measure emissions from category-L vehicles in realistic operation and to determine corresponding limit values.

Due to the advantages of high energy density and environmentally clean combustion, hydrogen is an ideal energy source for addressing global energy crises and environmental challenges. This review offers a brief summary and outlook on the interface in alkaline hydrogen evolution reaction between multiple components and the interaction between catalyst and solution.