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Paul Mabey

Paul is a Scientific Editor at IOP Publishing. After completing his PhD in plasma physics at the University of Oxford, he moved abroad to work as a researcher at École Polytechnique Paris and then Freie Universität Berlin. He joined IOP Publishing in 2024 and has been working on Reports on Progress in Physics since then. He can often be found on a Saturday morning at one of Bristol's parkruns.

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Real-number quantum theory can be more wrong than you thought

Imaginary numbers first appeared in the 16th century as a mathematical invention, introduced to solve equations that real numbers could not. As the name implies, many treated them as kind of trick to get results, rather than an underlying truth about the nature of reality. Although highly controversial at the time, these numbers are now ubiquitous […]

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Optical vortices provide a natural way to create topologies

New work suggests that building nontrivial topologies around optical vortices could be a better strategy than engineering delicate polarisation patterns across an entire beam

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Quantum computers may pay a price for keeping time

A quantum computer that runs itself using an internal clock can only compute accurately if that clock is precise, and that precision comes with a thermodynamic cost

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Do exceptional-point sensors really measure better?

New research shows that sensors based on exceptional points can beat ordinary sensors in ideal quantum-limited measurements, but only if the light input, loss rate, and the perturbation being measured are carefully matched

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Quantum effects in chemical reactions

New research shows that chemical reactions in an ultracold quantum gas can generate entanglement and transfer phase information from atoms to molecules

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When topology meets entanglement

New research explores how a material’s unusual topological behaviour is connected to the way quantum states are shared between different parts of its lattice

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A new way to trap and twist light inside quasicrystals

By reshaping quasicrystals with carefully designed defects, researchers can create and control stable twisting beams of light in new ways.

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How can you fast-forward a quantum simulation?

Limits on the speed of quantum algorithms are not quite as rigid as previously thought, according to new research

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How do collisions cause light to condense in solid-state devices?

New research explains how light can behave like a quantum fluid in semiconductors, opening up possibilities for new kinds of practical quantum light sources

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Exotic physics revealed in a simple circuit

Scientists have built an electronic circuit that is able to mimic a subtle symmetry normally only found in particle physics

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