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EPSRC Quantum Hub Network

The UK government has released information about the £120m programme to explore the properties of quantum mechanics and how it can be used to develop new technologies. The four Quantum Technology Hubs, which will involve a total of 17 UK universities and 132 companies, will be funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). The investment is part of the £270m National Quantum Technologies Programme that was announced in 2013 by UK chancellor George Osborne and will run across the next five years. The Centre for Quantum Photonics​ (CQP) is pleased to announce ​our involvement in two ​​successful hubs​; Quantum Sensing and Imaging led by the University of Glasgow and Quantum Communications led by the University of York.
Superconductivity in cuprates: maximal to minimal dissipation - a new paradigm?

Superconductivity in cuprates: ‘from maximal to minimal dissipation’ - a new paradigm? Researchers from the School of Physics used some of Europe’s strongest continuous magnetic fields to uncover evidence of exotic charge carriers in the metallic state of copper-oxide high-temperature superconductors (high-Tc cuprates). Their results have been published last week in Nature [1]. In a related publication in SciPost Physics the week before [2], members from the same team postulated that it is these exotic charge carriers that form the superconducting pairs, in marked contrast with expectations from conventional theory.