The company shows off a mix of error-resistant hardware and error correction. Following up on Microsoft’s announcement of a qubit […]
Category: Physics
Scientists unlock vital clue to strange quirk of static electricity
Scientists can now explain the prevailing unpredictability of contact electrification, unveiling order from what has long been considered chaos. Static […]
Microsoft demonstrates working qubits based on exotic physics
Skip to content Stronger evidence for a hypothetical quasiparticle, plus actual processing hardware. Microsoft’s Majorana 1 processor, the first to […]
Quantum teleportation used to distribute a calculation
The researchers showed that this setup allowed them to teleport with a specific gate operation (controlled-Z), which can serve as […]
Seven cool science stories we almost missed this month
Peruvian mummy tattoos, the wobbly physics of spears and darts, quantum “cat states,” and more. Lasers revealed tattoos on the […]
Complexity physics finds crucial tipping points in chess games
For his analysis, Barthelemy chose to represent chess as a decision tree in which each “branch” leads to a win, […]
Researchers optimize simulations of molecules on quantum computers
The net result is a much faster operation involving far fewer gates. That’s important because errors in quantum hardware increase […]
How to get a perfect salt ring deposit in your pasta pot
Deposit morphologies for a settling particle. When increasing either the injection volume or the settling height, the deposit radius increases. […]
Did Hilma af Klint draw inspiration from 19th century physics?
Diagrams from Thomas Young’s 1807 Lectures bear striking resemblance to abstract figures in af Klint’s work. Hilma af Klint’s Group […]
Why solving crosswords is like a phase transition
There’s also the more recent concept of “explosive percolation,” whereby connectivity emerges not in a slow, continuous process but quite […]