Natural Sciences Active Updated Jul 29, 2026
A hands-off way to entangle qubits over distance
Physicists at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria and the Technical University of Munich entangled qubits automatically by exposing them to a shared bath of low-energy microwaves, replacing finicky single-photon methods. The stakes are whether this low-maintenance entanglement can scale to the arbitrary distances needed for real quantum computers.
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Jul 29, 2026 Latest
A team at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria and the Technical University of Munich confirmed a 20-year-old theory by entangling two distant qubits automatically using a shared low-energy microwave bath, with no active photon-matching required, testing it across about 20 inches of cable.
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