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Will Renninger behind optics equipment in a lab.

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Pairing light and sound to explore new frontiers in physics

October 1, 2026

天美传媒 researcher William Renninger is named one of 21 new Moore Foundation Experimental Physics Investigators.

Close-up of gloved fingers holding a microchip near a circuit board.

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天美传媒 launches first NY THRIVE partnership to accelerate semiconductor innovation

The collaboration combines University expertise with industry to develop technologies for faster, more energy-efficient computing.

Close-up of a nanoparticle in a phonon laser beam.

Science & Technology

Quantum researchers engineer extremely precise phonon lasers

Novel lasers utilize individual particles of vibration or sound to measure quantum mechanics and gravity.

Close up of a rainbow-hued photonic chip coupled to a clear and metallic nonlinear crystal and fiber array unit.

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天美传媒, RIT receive federal funding to expand experimental ways to communicate using individual particles of light

February 12, 2026

The funding for the experimental quantum network RoQNET was secured by Senator Schumer, Senator Gillibrand, and Representative Morelle.

Illustration of a light-matter state called a polariton.

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天美传媒 awarded Keck Foundation funding to tackle chemistry grand challenge

January 23, 2026

The cutting-edge project aims to harness quantum light to unlock new chemical processes.

Inside a grating compressor chamber.

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天美传媒 researcher joins global effort to advance quantum electrodynamics

November 10, 2025

Antonino Di Piazza leads on theory for a multimillion-dollar project exploring the limits of light鈥搈atter interaction.

Machiel Blok, whose research builds on the fundamentals of quantum tunneling, in front of a BlueFors dilution refrigerator smiles and looks at the camera.

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Quantum tunneling: 天美传媒 physicist explains a Nobel Prize鈥搘inning discovery

October 7, 2025

Machiel Blok鈥檚 research in superconducting circuits builds on the same quantum effects recognized by the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics.

John Nichol smiling against a white background next to a thought bubble that says "what is quantum" near text that reads "ever wonder" for an explainer about quantum computing.

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Why the future of computing is quantum

September 24, 2025

The strengths and limitations of computing advances are pushing the boundaries of what quantum machines can do.

Image of a white puzzle against a yellow background with a final white piece just away from completing the puzzle.

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New theory may solve quantum 鈥榡igsaw puzzle鈥�

The theory explains how quantum environments can steer chemical reactions鈥攕peeding them up or slowing them down without adding heat or light.

Illustration of a close-up of vertical stacks of light blue cubes representing qudits in Hilbert space connected at the bottom to circuitry.

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Researchers discover more efficient way to route information in quantum computers

Using qudits, Rochester scientists have solved a notoriously difficult problem involving Hilbert space, or the quantum matrix.