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Spatiotemporal shaping of broadband helical light pulses at relativistic intensities
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Enter Helios: quantum computer sets high watermark for accuracy
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We tend to think quantum tunnelling is a subatomic curiosity, but in 1984 and 1985 physicists at UC Berkeley showed that a superconducting electrical circuit big enough to hold in your hand could tunnel from one state to another — a discovery that won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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Topological suppression of quantum tunnelling in a lanthanide single-ion molecular magnet
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