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Polarisation of blue laser light being adjusted before cooling atoms to near absolute zero. Credit: Dr Thomas Walker. © Imperial College London.

Cancelling laser noise in atomic quantum sensors 

Results from a UK collaboration overcome major obstacle towards building large-scale atom interferometers.    A prototype quantum sensor developed by the Atom Interferometer Observatory and Network (AION) consortium has demonstrated, for the first time, that a...

19 June 2026

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Illustration of hybrid array disentangling seismic waves in the Earth and gravitational waves from outer space.

UKRI funds SEQUIN to probe Earth with a hybrid quantum array, on the path to sensing the cosmos

A major grant of £1.2 million from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is funding Sensing the Earth with a novel QUantum-classical INterferometer array (SEQUIN), an interdisciplinary collaboration between the Many-Body...

2 April 2026

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New applied quantum initiative to advance research translation at Cambridge

Quantum technology research at the Cavendish Laboratory will benefit from a new collaboration with FormationQ, an independent platform for quantum adoption and application, to help speed translation of the University...

3 February 2026

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UK Scientists achieve precision activation of quantum defects in diamond

A new study led by researchers at the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford and Manchester has achieved a major advance in quantum materials, developing a method to precisely engineer single quantum...

16 June 2025

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A new register with thousands of entangled nuclei to scale quantum networks

In a groundbreaking achievement for quantum technologies, researchers at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, have created a functional quantum register using the atoms inside a semiconductor quantum dot. This...

28 January 2025

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Dorian Gangloff secures funding to boost quantum networking

An ambitious project aiming to revolutionise quantum communication networks has successfully secured funding through the prestigious QuantERA 2023 call. The MEEDGARD project, short for “Memory Enhanced Entanglement Distribution with Gallium...

13 March 2024