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Pradeep Niroula

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.

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A Venice-style canal inside a Las Vegas megahotel

High rolling on high-T_c: dispatches from Las Vegas

Pradeep Niroula reports from the 2023 APS March Meeting

A photo of an optical bench with a vapour cell (hidden inside a magnetic shield) at the centre

Rubidium vapour makes a good quantum memory

Vapour cells that temporarily store photons could become fundamental building blocks of the quantum Internet

Quantum batteries harvest energy from light

Quantum mechanical effects enable more efficient energy-capture technology

Conquering the challenge of quantum optimization

Untrainable circuits, “barren plateaus” and deceptive local minimas may prevent the use of quantum-enhanced optimization, as Pradeep Niroula explains

Diagram illustrating how possible conformations of polymers are mapped onto a set of quantum spins

Quantum computers untangle knotty polymer problem

New algorithm predicts how polymer chains fold by minimizing the energy of a quantum system

Diagram of the quantum random number generator on a photonic integrated chip

Fast quantum random number generator fits on a fingertip

Chip-scale device achieves record speeds using vacuum fluctuations as its source of truly random numbers

Multi-party quantum key distribution paves the way for quantum-secure conference calls

Proof-of-principle experiment uses ordinary telecommunications fibres to connect multiple users over long distances

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