--- title: Researchers Explore Gold Nanoclusters as a Potential... description: Researchers at Penn State and the University of Toronto are investigating gold nanoclusters and planar gold structures as a new class of quantum material,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/researchers-explore-gold-nanoclusters-as-a-potential-quantum-technology-platform-vk6lqzfiy twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Researchers Explore Gold Nanoclusters as a Potential Quantum Technology Platform | daily.dev og:description: Researchers at Penn State and the University of Toronto are investigating gold nanoclusters and planar gold structures as a new class of quantum material,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/researchers-explore-gold-nanoclusters-as-a-potential-quantum-technology-platform-vk6lqzfiy og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/vK6LqzFIY.png og:image:alt: Researchers Explore Gold Nanoclusters as a Potential Quantum Technology Platform og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Researchers Explore Gold Nanoclusters as a Potential Quantum Technology Platform **[The Quantum Insider](https://daily.dev/sources/thequantuminsider)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Researchers at Penn State and the University of Toronto are investigating gold nanoclusters and planar gold structures as a new class of quantum material, sponsored by Delta Gold Technologies. The Penn State team recorded approximately 40% spin-polarized photon emission from sub-1-nanometer gold nanoclusters — claimed to be the highest in any condensed-phase quantum system — which could reduce error-correction overhead in qubits. The University of Toronto is growing ultra-pure crystalline gold films via Molecular Beam Epitaxy, pursuing a structurally different but complementary approach. A key differentiator is manufacturability: gram-quantity synthesis has already been demonstrated under accessible lab conditions, contrasting with the complex fabrication requirements of trapped-ion or superconducting qubit systems. Delta Gold holds multiple patent applications from both universities and has committed up to $6 million over six years to expand the Penn State program into quantum sensing and communication. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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