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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If there’s one law of physics that seems easy to grasp, it’s the second law of thermodynamics: Heat…
Read more Physicists Create a Thermometer for Measuring ‘Quantumness’Quantum computers are already here, even though it’s not readily apparent. Now, researchers say quantum advantage—the field’s long-promised milestone of outperforming classical computers—appears to have finally arrived. But…
Read more Researchers Claim First ‘Unconditional Proof’ of Quantum Advantage. What Happens Next?Of all the eccentricities of the quantum realm, time crystals—atomic arrangements that repeat certain motions over time—might be some of the weirdest. But they certainly exist, and to…
Read more Physicists Made a Time Crystal We Can Actually See“It provides a natural framework, or a bookkeeping mechanism, to assemble very large numbers of Feynman diagrams,” said Marcus Spradlin, a physicist at Brown University who has been…
Read more The Quantum Geometry That Exists Outside of Space and TimeNEW YORK, September 25, 2024 (Newswire.com) – For over a decade, Quanta Magazine has challenged and delighted fans with stories about the most fundamental questions in science. Today, in…
Read more Quanta Magazine Unravels Space and Time in Ambitious New SeriesBut not all questions about quantum systems are easier to answer using quantum algorithms. Some are equally easy for classical algorithms, which run on ordinary computers, while others…
Read more New Evidence Shows Heat Destroys Quantum EntanglementA key question was the origin of the logarithmic scaling of the greenhouse effect—the 2-to-5-degree temperature rise that models predict will happen for every doubling of CO2. One…
Read more The Quantum Mechanics of the Greenhouse Effect
