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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.

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.

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.

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%.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Plant traits drive ecosystem dynamics yet are challenging to map globally due to sparse measurements. Here, the authors combine crowdsourced biodiversity observations with Earth observation data to accurately map 31 plant traits at 1 km² resolution.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A three-dimensional (3D) nanofabrication platform based on metalens-generated focal spot arrays is introduced to parallelize two-photon lithography beyond centimetre-scale write field areas, revealing the potential of 3D nanolithography towards wafer-scale production.

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.

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.

Chemical language models trained on known metabolites can identify previously unknown metabolites from mass spectrometry-based metabolomics data with high accuracy.

Identifying jets originating from heavy quarks plays a fundamental role in hadronic collider experiments. In this work, the ATLAS Collaboration describes and tests a transformer-based neural network architecture for jet flavour tagging based on low-level input and physics-inspired constraints.

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.

Wide-bandgap perovskite solar cells suffer from instability under rapid thermal cycling. Here, Sun et al. investigate the degradation mechanism, showing that temperature-induced structural strain, phase transition, and increased non-radiative defects drive the degradation processes.

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.

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.

Optically active spin defects in diamond and hBN are promising solid-state quantum sensors but often fall short for chemical sensing. Here the authors show that BN nanotubes hosting such defects create a nanoporous, omnidirectional quantum “mesh” sensor at room temperature, enhancing chemical detection through high surface area and improved sample accessibility.

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.

In targeted protein degradation, a degrader molecule brings a neosubstrate protein proximal to a hijacked E3 ligase for its ubiquitination. Here, pseudo-natural products derived from (−)-myrtanol—iDegs—are identified to inhibit and induce degradation of the immunomodulatory enzyme indoleamine-2,3-dioxygenase 1 (IDO1) by a distinct mechanism. iDegs prime apo-IDO1 ubiquitination and subsequent degradation using its native proteolytic pathway.

Despite recent advances in targeting RAS, resistance to anti-RAS therapies limits their effectiveness in KRAS-mutant lung cancer. Here, the authors show that RAS inhibitors impair wild-type KRAS degradation, leading to its accumulation and resistance through mTOR, and demonstrate that targeting mTOR or amino acid transport can overcome this resistance.

Superconducting constrictions are an alternative source of nonlinearity to Al-based Josephson junctions, enabling new functionalities for qubits. Here, the authors demonstrate a high-frequency superconducting qubit in a single TiN thin film, based on coherent quantum phase slip tunneling through a constriction.

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.

A materials platform using tantalum as a base layer and silicon as the substrate to construct superconducting qubits enables device performance improvements such as millisecond lifetimes and coherence times, as well as high time-averaged quality factors.

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.

Inhibitor-induced kinase degradation is a common event that positions supercharging of endogenous degradation circuits as an alternative to classical proximity-inducing degraders.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This work challenges the view of nucleation governing halide perovskite grain morphology, showing that most additives act post-nucleation by boosting ion mobility across grain boundaries, triggering grain coarsening, similar to post-processing effects.

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.

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 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.

KLHL23 and RhoGDI compete for CDC42’s switch II region in a GTP- or GDP-dependent manner, driving spatiotemporal inactivation through degradation or sequestration. This dynamic control maintains membrane homeostasis and is impaired in Takenouchi–Kosaki Syndrome.

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.

An optically addressable fluorescent-protein spin qubit is realized using enhanced yellow fluorescent protein; the qubit can be coherently controlled at liquid-nitrogen temperatures and the spin detected at room temperature in cells.

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

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.

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.

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.