How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really? | Quanta Magazine

Plausible answers range from 17 to — in all seriousness — 995.5.

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The Register: Boffin claims Microsoft’s supposed quantum leap does not compute due to ‘basic Python errors’. “Prestigious journal Nature has published a peer-reviewed critique of Microsoft’s claims to have made quantum computing breakthroughs – and the scientist who wrote the paper has essentially said Redmond got it wrong.”

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The Register: Boffin claims Microsoft’s supposed quantum leap does not compute due to ‘basic Python errors’

The Register: Boffin claims Microsoft’s supposed quantum leap does not compute due to ‘basic Python errors’. “Prestigious journal Nature has published a peer-reviewed critiq…

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How quantum sensing could reveal hidden faults in thousands of U.S. bridges

Of the more than 624,000 highway bridges in the U.S., an estimated 220,000 need repairs. Quantum sensors could help engineers better safeguard these vital pieces of infrastructure

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What is the Macroscopic Tunnelling Effect?

100 years ago in Göttingen, the foundations for modern quantum physics were laid down. It transformed our understanding of nature. An important discovery since then has been the #MacroscopicTunnellingEffect, #NobelPrize #QuantumPhysics.

Find out how this extraordinary phenomenon opens up new opportunities in research, and innovation - from superconducting circuits and #QuantumComputers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpdz0ia7nKg

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Discovery of the Macroscopic Tunneling Effect: Nobel Prize in Quantum Physics

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This simple twist could bring quantum computers closer to reality. Via @sciencedaily_official #Science #Physics #QuantumPhysics #QuantumMechanics 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑‍🔬 #ComputerSciences 🧑‍💻 #QuantumComputers 🖥️

This simple twist could bring ...
This simple twist could bring quantum computers closer to reality

Researchers found that twisting layered sheets of hexagonal boron nitride can dramatically change the light produced by quantum emitters embedded within the material. The technique offers an unexpected new level of control over components that could power future quantum computers, communications systems, and sensors.

ScienceDaily
Scientists Might Have a Unified Theory of Everything. It’s Hiding Inside a ‘Qbox.’

A new theory could resolve longstanding tensions in mutually exclusive ideas about physics.

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Einstein’s “biggest blunder” may finally have an explanation. Via @sciencedaily_official #Science #Physics #QuantumPhysics #QuantumMechanics 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑‍🔬

Einstein’s “biggest blunder” m...
Einstein’s “biggest blunder” may finally have an explanation

Scientists have uncovered a surprising connection between quantum gravity and an exotic quantum state of matter that could explain why the universe isn’t expanding wildly fast. The study suggests that the very shape of space-time may protect the cosmological constant from disruptive quantum effects.

ScienceDaily
A 98-qubit trapped-ion quantum computer with all-to-all connectivity. Via @scientific_american #Science #Physics #QuantumPhysics #QuantumMechanics 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑‍🔬

A 98-qubit trapped-ion quantum...
A 98-qubit trapped-ion quantum computer with all-to-all connectivity - Nature

A new quantum computer, Quantinuum Helios, which is a 98-qubit trapped-ion quantum processor built on the QCCD architecture, demonstrates performance well beyond classical capabilities and provides a path for scaling up quantum computing.

Nature
Sooner than expected? Useful quantum error correction promised for 2028. Via @arstechnica #Science #Physics #QuantumPhysics #QuantumMechanics 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑‍🔬 #ComputerSciences 🧑‍💻 #QuantumComputers 🖥️

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Sooner than expected? Useful quantum error correction promised for 2028.

Elsewhere, beyond-classical quantum hardware, plus classical computing fires back.

Ars Technica