The Wisconsin Quantum Institute selected four graduate student finalists who presented their work during a special colloquium today.

A 1^st place prize ($1000) and a 2^nd place prize ($500) were awarded to Omar Nagib and Minjeong Kim for their work on:

Omar Nagib – Efficient preparation of entangled states in cavity QED with Grover’s algorithm

Minjeong Kim – Broadband Light Extraction from Near-Surface NV Centers Using Crystalline-Silicon Antennas

The competition for AY25-26 will reopen during the Spring of 2026.

Congratulations to all presenters for their great work!

Congrats to Roman Kuzmin, the Dunson Cheng Assistant Professor of Physics, for being selected for an NSF CAREER award. The 5-year award will support Kuzmin and his group’s research on understanding fluxonium qubits and how …

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Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Copenhagen recently introduced a new strategy to efficiently prepare entangled states in an optical cavity.

Read the full article at: https://phys.org/news/2025-08-grover-algorithm-efficiently-quantum-states.html

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Matt Otten has won an Air Force Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) award, offered through the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. The program intends to support early-career scientists and engineers who show exceptional ability …

Read the full article at: https://www.physics.wisc.edu/2025/05/20/matt-otten-earns-air-force-young-investigator-research-program-award/

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YQuantum is a hackathon organized by Yale every year. BlueQubit hosted their global challenge both remotely and in person at Yale. The challenge was about finding the hidden bitstring in a peaked circuit, an idea introduced by Scott Aaronson to show quantum advantage. In a peaked circuit, there is only one hidden computational basis state, or bitstring, that has a significantly higher amplitude than all other bitstrings. Given 6 peaked circuits, their task was to figure out the 6 hidden bitstrings.  Circuits 4 to 6 were constructed in a way that was difficult to solve by a classical or a current quantum computer due to the large Hilbert space, depth of the circuit, and the number of operations. All teams present at YQuantum were able to figure out 3 out of the 6 hidden strings. Henry’s team gave the best presentation and the best possible solutions to solve circuits 4 to 6.

 

Read the full article at: https://chicagoquantum.org/news/uw-madison-quantum-sensing-startup-dirac-labs-joins-chicago-quantum-exchange

This post is adapted from one originally published by Fermilab Fermilab is finalizing a partnership with Diraq and several universities — including the University of Wisconsin–Madison — for the Quandarum project. The project team intends …

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Quantum Teleportation was first achieved in the 1990s, demonstrating that information could be teleported from one location to another, granted the two locations are entangled, Johannes Rydberg Professor of Physics and Wisconsin Quantum Institute Director Mark Saffman said. The limiting factor of this discovery was the information transfer required specialized fibers, Saffman said. Recent achievements...

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