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Across qubit platforms, improving coherence often compromises operational speed. Here, the authors overcome this trade-off by electrically controlling a hole spin qubit in a Ge/Si core/shell nanowire, achieving triple manipulation speeds while quadrupling coherence times.

The functional impact of most missense variants remains unknown. Here the authors perform deep mutational scanning of the tumor suppressor SMARCB1 and find missense mutations that retain detectable protein expression but disrupt function similar to protein-null mutations

Silicon carbide is a polymorphic material with over 250 known crystal structures. Here the authors show that such polymorphism can be used as a degree of freedom for engineering optically addressable and coherently interacting spin states, including many with room-temperature quantum coherence.

Airborne genetic material can be used to paint a picture of ecosystem health, watch for invasive species and even identify humans.

Spin–photon interfaces provide a connection between quantum information stored in atomic or electronic spins and optical communications networks. A quantum photon emitter with long-lived, controllable coherent spin has now been demonstrated.

An 11-qubit atom processor comprising two precision-placed nuclear spin registers of phosphorus in silicon is shown to achieve state-of-the-art Bell-state fidelities of up to 99.5%.

The length of time a qubit can store information is linked to its coherence time. Here, the authors demonstrate that industrially important crystals comprising more than one species can host qubits with unexpectedly long coherence times.

Systems of electron spins in nuclear-spin-rich hosts are gaining attention for quantum memory applications. Using spin ensemble studies, the authors propose transition metal ions in halide double perovskites as promising candidates, featuring long electron spin coherence and deterministic nuclear spin control.

The CMS experiment at CERN reports one of the highest-precision measurements of the W boson mass, finding it in line with standard model predictions and at odds with recent anomalous measurements.

Hole spin qubits in germanium have seen significant advancements, though improving control and noise resilience remains a key challenge. Here, the authors realize a dressed singlet-triplet qubit in germanium, achieving frequency-modulated high-fidelity control and a tenfold increase in coherence time.

A large-scale study on the replicability of claims from social and behavioural science journals reports that about half of the results replicate in the same patterns as the original study.

A nanoscale X-ray double-waveguide interferometer is developed to measure the phase shift due to the 14.4-keV nuclear resonance of the Mössbauer isotope ⁵⁷Fe. The phase shift is extracted from just a few single-photon interference measurements using Bayesian inference.

Epitaxial quantum dots in group III-V semiconductors are promising candidates for qubits and quantum memories, but nuclear spin coherence has been limited to 1 ms range. Here the authors achieve coherence times exceeding 100 ms in GaAs quantum dots using strain engineering and dynamical decoupling.

Long quantum coherence time is a fundamental requirement for the realization of any quantum-mechanically operating machine. Here, Bader et al.demonstrate a coherence time as long as 68 μs at low temperature and of 1 μs at room temperature for a transition metal complex.

A study of reproducibility in a stratified random sample of 600 papers published from 2009 to 2018 in 62 journals spanning the social and behavioural sciences finds higher reproducibility among more recent papers and papers from journals that require data sharing.

Hybrid systems composed of defect centres in diamond and mechanical resonators are promising for studies in quantum information science and optomechanics. Here, the authors show direct coupling of the spin of a nitrogen–vacancy centre to a diamond cantilever through lattice strain.

Marwitz et al. demonstrate the use of large language models to build semantic concept graphs from materials science abstracts and train a machine learning model to predict emerging topic combinations from historical data. They show that the model enables experts to find suggestions that can inspire new research.

High sensitivity in quantum sensing comes often at the expense of other figures of merit, usually resulting in distortion. Here, the authors propose a protocol with good sensitivity, readout linearity and high frequency resolution, and benchmark it through signal measurements at audio bands with NV centers.

Previously uncharacterized cysteine-derived conjugates, including with endogenous sugar metabolites, accumulate in cancer cells with constitutive NRF2 activation and account for some of the increased cystine uptake that cannot be explained by conventional cysteine metabolism.

The spin states associated with nitrogen vacancies in diamond could be useful in the development of solid-state quantum information processing. Laraoui et al. resolve the temporal dynamics of spins associated with C-13 atoms near such vacancies to better understand and perhaps better exploit their behaviour.

Superconducting qubits are highly sensitive to magnetic fields, limiting their integration with spin-based quantum systems. Here, the authors demonstrate a superconducting qubit that maintains coherence beyond 1T, revealing spin-1/2 impurities and magnetic freezing of flux noise.

Operation sweet spots decouple hole spin qubits in silicon from charge noise while conserving full electrical control and allowing for spin coherence times of up to 88 μs.

Langstein-Skora, Schmid, Huth et al. propose that intrinsically disordered region functionality can be driven by the interplay between linear binding motifs and contextual chemical characteristics such as charge and hydrophobicity.

Silicon-based spin qubits are promising candidates for a scalable quantum computer. Here the authors demonstrate the violation of Bell’s inequality in gate-defined quantum dots in silicon, marking a significant advancement that showcases the maturity of this platform.

Quantum coherence is hard to maintain in solid-state systems, as interactions usually lead to fast dephasing. Exploiting disorder effects and interactions, highly coherent two-level systems have now been realized in a rare-earth insulator compound.

The coherent operation of individual ³¹P electron and nuclear spin qubits in a ²⁸Si substrate shows new benchmark decoherence times and provides essential information on the dechorence mechanism.

Electron spins in semiconductors form a potential basis for quantum information technology however they are strongly affected by interactions with nuclear spins. Here, the authors show how quadrupolar interactions, although suppressing nuclear dynamics, can result in an anisotropic enhancement of electronic decoherence.

Encasing a single atom within a fullerene (C₆₀) cage can create a robustly packaged single atomic spin system. Here, the authors perform electron paramagnetic resonance on a single encased spin using a diamond NV-center, demonstrating the first steps in controlling single spins in fullerene cages.

Hole spin semiconductor qubits suffer from charge noise, but now it has been demonstrated that placing them in an appropriately oriented magnetic field can suppress this noise and improve qubit performance.

When trying to characterise a bath coupled to a sensor qubit, one should consider that quantum environments change their properties in response to external perturbations. Here, the authors show how back-action of the qubit on the bath leads to a quench, which can be used to infer the bath spectral function.

The authors report the sweet-spot operation of germanium hole spin qubits, exploring the optimization of the external magnetic field orientation, the g-tensor and its electric tunability, and hyperfine interactions.

Silicon is a promising material for realization of quantum processors, particularly as it could be naturally integrated with classical control hardware based on CMOS technology. Here the authors report a silicon qubit device made with an industry-standard fabrication process on a CMOS platform.

Quantum systems make it challenging to determine candidate Hamiltonians from experimental data. An automated protocol is presented and its capabilities to infer the correct Hamiltonian are demonstrated in a nitrogen-vacancy centre set-up.

Spins defined in single-walled carbon nanotubes promise ultra-long spin relaxation times, but qubit implementations require confinement of isolated spins. Here the authors report highly confined long-lived electron spins in chemically functionalized nanotubes and demonstrate their coherent control.

Optical spin defects in semiconductors are crucial for applications, but it is often difficult to establish their microscopic origin. A mechanism for the spin behaviour of a family of bright emitters in hexagonal boron nitride has now been identified.

Documents that lay out a research group’s ethos and practical guidelines are becoming increasingly popular in the academic community.

The sensitivity of single spins to their local environment makes them promising components for future quantum information and sensing technology. Here, the authors use geometric spin echo to demonstrate the control of nitrogen-vacancies via the crystal field in diamond under zero applied fields.

A scalable silicon quantum processor unit cell made of two qubits confined to quantum dots operates at about 1.5 K, achieving 98.6% single-qubit gate fidelities and a 2 μs coherence time.

The authors fabricate a fluxonium circuit using a granular aluminium nanoconstriction to replace the conventional superconductor–insulator–superconductor tunnel junction. Their characterization suggests that this approach will be a useful element in the superconducting qubit toolkit.

Initialization and operation of spin qubits in silicon above 1 K reach fidelities sufficient for fault-tolerant operations at these temperatures.

Quantum computing requires fast and selective control of a large number of individual qubits while maintaining coherence, which is hard to achieve concomitantly. All-electrical operation of a hole spin qubit in a Ge/Si nanowire demonstrates the principle of switching from a mode of selective and fast control to idling with increased coherence.

Quantum teleportation moves the quantum state of a system between physical locations without losing its coherence, an essential criterion for emerging quantum information applications. Now, electron-spin-state teleportation in covalent organic electron donor–acceptor–stable radical molecules is demonstrated using entangled electron spins produced by photo-induced electron transfer.

Isotope engineering of silicon carbide leads to control of nuclear spins associated with single divacancy centres and extended electron spin coherence.

A single electron spin in silicon is dressed by a microwave field to create a new qubit with tangible advantages for quantum computation and nanoscale research.