Advances in Quantum technologies offer a step improvement in phase noise performance compared to conventional oscillators. University of Birmingham (UoB) is developing a new class of ultra low phase noise optical lattice clock Quantum oscillator that can provide several orders of magnitude improvement in radar sensitivity against clutter.

To facilitate this enabling research, the Advanced Radar Network (ADRAN) facility funded by the EPSRC Quantum Technologies Hub is being set-up to enable comparative performance assessment of a radar systems with quantum oscillators as compared to conventional alternatives.

This may be shared as something else, but these guys just used quantum tech to “unstealth stealth”. I think that’s a pretty cool thing to accomplish.

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Information about quantum enabled radar research in the Microwave Integrated Systems Laboratory (MISL) at the University of Birmingham.

Physicists have achieved the first-ever real-time, 3D simulations of how intense laser beams alter the quantum vacuum — a state once assumed to be empty, but which quantum physics predicts is full of virtual electron-positron pairs.

Researchers from the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and their collaborators have synthesized a new isotope—protactinium-210—for the first time. It is the most neutron-deficient isotope of protactinium synthesized to date. Their findings are published in Nature Communications.

The atomic nucleus is a quantum many-body system composed of protons and neutrons. Synthesizing and studying new nuclides is a frontier research topic in nuclear physics. Through this research, scientists can explore the limits of the existence of nuclei and deepen our understanding of the fundamental properties of matter.

Theoretical predictions suggest the existence of around 7,000 nuclides, yet only about 3,300 have been experimentally synthesized and observed so far.