Quantum Leap: Scientists Achieve Magic State Distillation on Logical Qubits for the First Time
Scientists have shown the elusive phenomenon of quantum computing that could create the way for fault-tolerant machines, which…
AI-assisted sorting, other new technologies could improve plastic recycling
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Just 9% of plastic worldwide is recycled. Due to waste mismanagement, nearly three-quarters of…
Scientists achieve ‘magic state’ breakthrough 20 years in the making — quantum computers could never be truly useful without it
In a world first, scientists have demonstrated an enigmatic phenomenon in quantum computing that could pave the way…
Laser-excited thorium-229 pioneers major breakthrough in dark matter detection
Key TakeawaysScientists have used laser-excited thorium-229 to probe for ultralight dark matter, even without a fully built nuclear…
High-temperature quantum coherence of spinons in a rare-earth spin chain
Connecting theory and experiment While spin-1/2 chains in magnetic crystals have been studied in the past31,32,33,34, to our…
Typical thermalization of low-entanglement states
The micro-canonical ensemble is commonly defined as the maximally mixed state-supported in a narrow window around a fixed…
The first observation of a giant nonlinear Nernst Effect in trilayer graphene
a, The schematic diagram of nonlinear Nernst effect in non-magnetic materials at zero magnetic field. b, The Nernst…
Thieving Pulsar Spinning 592 Times A Second Reveals New Understanding Of Where Its X-Rays Come From
An international team of astronomers has gained new understanding of some of the densest objects in the universe…
Gene editing offers transformative solution to saving endangered species
Pink pigeons feeding. Credit: Carl Jones Gene editing technologies—such as those used in agriculture and de-extinction projects—can be…
First physics results from the sPHENIX particle detector
Signals recorded by components of the sPHENIX calorimeter, which measures the energy of particles streaming from collisions, during…
Astronomers Reveal Supersonic, Tangled Filaments in Distant Gas Cloud
A team of astronomers, led by researchers from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO), has uncovered an unexpected and…
‘Standard candle’ particle measurement enables hunt for hybrid mesons
This Feynman diagram illustrates the scattering of a photon, represented by a blue squiggly line, with a proton,…