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Hefei Laboratory is a laboratory established to address the frontiers of global science and technology. As an integral part of China’s national strategic science and technology force, its main mission is to pool high-caliber talent from home and abroad, promote international exchanges and cooperation, and carry out strategic, forward-looking and fundamental research on major scientific issues as well as breakthroughs in key core technologies. It strives to secure the commanding heights in scientific and technological development, foster emerging industries, and make important contributions to building China into a leading science and technology power and achieving greater self-reliance and strength in science and technology....

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Chinese scientists develop "Jiuzhang 4.0," setting new world record in quantum computing

Chinese scientists have developed a programmable quantum computing prototype called "Jiuzhang 4.0" that has set a new world record for optical quantum information technology, according to a study published on Wednesday in the journal Nature.Led by the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), the team used the prototype to solve the Gaussian boson sampling problem at a speed more than 10 ...

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Chinese optical clock accurate to within 1 second over 30 bln years

Strontium optical lattice clock developed by the University of Science and Technology of China. /via CMGResearchers from the University of Science and Technology of China have achieved a major breakthrough in optical clock technology, developing a strontium optical lattice clock with stability and uncertainty both surpassing the 10⁻¹⁹ level, meaning the clock would lose or gain less than one second ...

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Chinese Researchers Achieve Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution over 100 km

A team of researchers led by PAN Jianwei, ZHANG Qiang, and BAO Xiaohui from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)/Hefei Laboratory, along with other colleagues, has, for the first time, provided a critical building block for scalable quantum repeaters, enabling the team to subsequently achieve device-independent quantum key distribution (DI-...

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Researchers Develop a Distributed Intercity Quantum Sensor Network

Recently, scientists from institutions including the University of Science and Technology of China made a fundamental breakthrough in nuclear-spin quantum precision measurement. They developed the first intercity nuclear-spin based quantum sensor network, which experimentally contains the axion topological-defect dark matter and surpasses the astrophysical limits.Current studies indicate that ordinary ...

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Raising Schrodinger's kittens

Title: Raising Schrodinger's kittensSpeaker: Markus Arndt, University of ViennaTime: June 12, 2026, 4:00 PMVenue: B1102, Material Science Research Building, USTC

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Pseudo-criticality and its implication for the lost conformality

Title: Pseudo-criticality and its implication for the lost conformalitySpeaker: Zhu Wei, Westlake UniversityTime: May 8, 2026, 10:00 AMVenue: Conference Room A924

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Quantum Sensing of Quantum Dynamics: From Noise to Correlations

Title: Quantum Sensing of Quantum Dynamics: From Noise to CorrelationsSpeaker: Gonzalo A. Alvarez, Bariloche Atomic Center, ArgentinaTime: April 15, 2026, 3:00 PMVenue: Conference Room A712

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Interfacing Erbium ions with superconducting qubits and functional integrated photonics

Title: Interfacing Erbium ions with superconducting qubits and functional integrated photonicsSpeaker: Steven Touzard, National University of SingaporeTime: April 8, 2026, 9:30 AMVenue: Conference Room A712

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