High rolling on high-Tc: dispatches from Las Vegas
Pradeep Niroula reports from the 2023 APS March Meeting
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Pradeep Niroula is a student contributor to Physics World. He has an undergraduate degree from Harvard College where he studied physics, mathematics and government. He is currently a PhD student at the University of Maryland College Park, US. While his research focus is on quantum error correction and complexity theory, he is broadly interested in the application of quantum technologies, from quantum sensing to quantum algorithms. Outside of research, he enjoys strumming guitar, baking and writing book reviews. He writes about new developments in quantum computing at theregister.substack.com.
Pradeep Niroula reports from the 2023 APS March Meeting
Vapour cells that temporarily store photons could become fundamental building blocks of the quantum Internet
Quantum mechanical effects enable more efficient energy-capture technology
Untrainable circuits, “barren plateaus” and deceptive local minimas may prevent the use of quantum-enhanced optimization, as Pradeep Niroula explains
New algorithm predicts how polymer chains fold by minimizing the energy of a quantum system
Chip-scale device achieves record speeds using vacuum fluctuations as its source of truly random numbers
Proof-of-principle experiment uses ordinary telecommunications fibres to connect multiple users over long distances
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