Who was Amelia Frank? The life of a forgotten physicist
In 1977, an American physicist named John H. Van Vleck won the Nobel prize for his…
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‘Spooky action at a distance’ – a beginner’s guide to quantum entanglement and why it matters in the real world
Many governments and tech companies are investing heavily in quantum technologies. In New Zealand, the recently…
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Microsoft just claimed a quantum breakthrough. A quantum physicist explains what it means
Researchers at Microsoft have announced the creation of the first “topological qubits” in a device that…
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New experiments finally prove a long-forgotten theory about how quantum particles spin
What makes something quantum? This question has kept a small but dedicated fraction of the world’s…
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Taking the ‘forever’ out of ‘forever chemicals’: we worked out how to destroy the PFAS in batteries
Clearly, the battery recycling rate must improve. This is where everyday people can help. In the…
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Qubit that makes most errors obvious now available to customers
We’re nearing the end of the year, and there are typically a flood of announcements regarding…
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IBM boosts the amount of computation you can get done on quantum hardware
By making small adjustments to the frequency that the qubits are operating at, it’s possible to…
