Xue Qikun, China’s first Fritz London Memorial Prize winner, highlighted the role of basic research for achieving China’s scientific and technological advancements when delivering an online report to an international conference in Japan recently.

Axion insulator is an exotic topological phase in condensed matter, which has been extensively studied for decades. When the time-reversal symmetry on the surface of the 3D topological insulator is broken, the surface energy gap will be opened to achieve the so-called axion insulating phase.

On August 21, the list of winners of the 2022 Future Science Prize was officially announced.

From the physics point of view, measurement is a physical process that estimates the quantity of a particular observable or a physical parameter. The science of measurement is called metrology. How to improve the precision in metrology is a central issue in this field, for which many classical approaches have been proposed.

The spurious ZZ interaction between qubits is a common crosstalk phenomenon in superconducting qubit chips, which will cause the frequency of qubits to be affected by the surrounding qubits states, thus reducing the manipulation accuracy of quantum gates. Eliminating ZZ interaction is of great significance to improve the overall fidelity of the chip and the depth of the quantum algorithm.

The 17th Symposium of the Study of the Earth’s Deep Interior (SEDI), a Committee of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), was recently held in Zurich, Switzerland.