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Physicists Finally Find a Problem Only Quantum Computers Can …
Mar 12, 2024 · The answers started to emerge last year, when Chi-Fang (Anthony) Chen, another author of the recent paper, helped develop a new quantum algorithm that could simulate quantum thermodynamics (which studies the impact of heat, energy and work on a quantum system). “I think many people have [researched] the question about what the energy landscape looks like in quantum systems, but previously ...
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The Quest to Quantify Quantumness - Quanta Magazine
Oct 19, 2023 · “Entanglement was mentioned very quickly,” said Richard Jozsa, a mathematician at the University of Cambridge.“And everyone just assumed that was it.” For a time, it seemed the search for that crucial quantum spice had ended before it even started.
The Mystery at the Heart of Physics That Only Math Can Solve
Jun 10, 2021 · Over the past century, quantum field theory has proved to be the single most sweeping and successful physical theory ever invented. It is an umbrella term that encompasses many specific quantum field theories — the way “shape” …
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Nov 4, 2024 · Yizhi “Patrick” Cai is coordinating a global effort to write a complete synthetic yeast genome. If he succeeds, the resulting cell will be the artificial life most closely related to humans to date.
The Year in Physics - Quanta Magazine
Dec 22, 2021 · One of the first articles Quanta Magazine published in 2021 described a cosmic surprise: A long-puzzling smudge of X-ray light was not, as most believed, a nearby cloud of gas, the remnant of some long-ago stellar explosion.Instead, it was the edge of a truly enormous structure, a bubble that towered over our Milky Way galaxy. The revelation was the product of a unique space telescope that was ...
Quantum physics - Quanta Magazine
A 1930s-era breakthrough is helping physicists understand how quantum threads could weave together into a holographic space-time fabric. Until his dying days, the giant of 20th-century physics obsessed over the underpinnings of space and time, and how we can all share the same version of them. The ...