The Euler spiral of rat whiskers, a colourful Inca statue, a “quantum bottleneck” in hiring
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Entanglement lights the way to scalable quantum computers
Relatively small ion traps could be linked via photons
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A decade of Physics World breakthroughs: 2009 – the first quantum computer
Michael Banks looks at the Physics World 2009 Breakthrough of the Year and how research in quantum computing has moved on
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Quantum computers could mark their own homework
Protocol estimates the accuracy of quantum calculation without knowing the correct result
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Artificial intelligence in medical physics, quantum computing in silicon and a return to physics in film
The podcast team explores a few of the ways that advances in computing (classical and quantum) are shaping the direction of physics research
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Manufacturing silicon qubits at scale
As quantum computing matures, will decades of engineering give silicon qubits an edge? Fernando Gonzalez-Zalba, Tsung-Yeh Yang and Alessandro Rossi think so
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Atomic spins on a surface make good quantum bits
New quantum computing platform could also be used to measure tiny electric and magnetic fields
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The hard sell of quantum software
Despite recent progress, quantum computers are still at an early stage. So why are companies selling software for them?
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Is Google’s quantum supremacy not so supreme after all?
Preprint from IBM researchers downgrades quantum advantage
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Physicists break distance record for electron spin-state transmission in spin qubits
Coherent spin state transfer in spin qubits could boost the field of quantum error correction
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