Quantum Simulation Explained: Applications, Methods and Challenges
Insider Brief Quantum simulation uses quantum computers to model molecules, materials and other quantum systems that can be…
Guest Post — The Quantum Inflection Point: Charting a Science-First Roadmap for the Nation
By Dr. Darío Gil, the Under Secretary for Science at the U.S. Department of Energy. His office is…
A 1,100 plasma campaign on a spherical tokamak in Oxfordshire hit the machine’s highest pressure without a single disruption, where the real result was 4 separate ways to tame the plasma edge
A vacuum vessel in Oxfordshire shaped less like a doughnut than a cored apple. Inside it the machine…
Researchers Observe First Real-Time Quantum Jump in Sound
Insider Brief Stanford researchers directly observed individual phonons, or quantum units of sound, making discrete energy jumps in…
Scientists are about to test Einstein’s gravity with exotic matter
Does gravity affect every type of particle in exactly the same way? Researchers at ETH Zurich and the…
Scientists are about to test Einstein’s gravity with exotic matter
Does gravity affect every type of particle in exactly the same way? Researchers at ETH Zurich and the…
CERN Physicists Find Evidence of One of Higgs Boson’s Rarest Decays
Physicists from the ATLAS Collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have found evidence of the Higgs boson…
One precisely timed flip may make quantum information safe: Study
Under the right conditions, theoretical calculations showed a flip could prevent sudden death — an outcome researchers call…
Navigating academia as a dual-career couple
Amy Lytle and Etienne Gagnon. (Photo by Deb Grove, Franklin & Marshall College.) Jessica Bickel and Thijs Heus.…
IonQ | Quantum Algorithms Accelerate Engineering Simulations
New hybrid quantum research breakthrough cuts through supercomputing bottlenecks to save processing time for complex car and jet…
Disorder is key to tuning a high-temperature superconductor
Cornell physicists have discovered that minimizing disorder, not varying electron count, is the key factor for controlling the…
Here’s Why Everything You See Is a Mix of Red, Yellow, Green, And Blue : ScienceAlert
Since a 19th century theory put forward by German physiologist Ewald Hering, color scientists have considered the hues…