Physicists Create a Thermometer for Measuring ‘Quantumness’
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If there’s one law of physics that seems…
The ‘10 Martini’ Proof Connects Quantum Mechanics With Infinitely Intricate Mathematical Structures
But in some ways, the proof was a bit unsatisfying. Jitomirskaya and Avila had used a method that…
Distillation Can Make AI Models Smaller and Cheaper
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The Chinese AI company DeepSeek released a chatbot…
The Quest to Find the Longest-Running Simple Computer Program
But just how much harder? In 1962, the mathematician Tibor Radó invented a new way to explore this…
The New Math of Quantum Cryptography
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight.…