Dichotomy between analog quantum simulators & general-purpose quantum computers is narrow scientificamerican.com/article/analog… Quantum advantage will be reached soon with NISQ computers: Digital-Analog QC, Digitized-Adiabatic QC & Neuromorphic QC Quantum Flagship Quantentechnologien The Quantum Insider

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Switzerland is showing its new ambition!

Giorgio Parisi – awarded the 2021 #NobelPrize in Physics – discovered hidden patterns in disordered complex materials. His discoveries are among the most important contributions to the theory of complex systems.

A lot of existing physics has been discovered in a family of Kagome metals recently! For an overview, take a look at our Nature Physics Perspective article rdcu.be/cCuKs

3-minute video from the Caltech Science Exchange: Fernando Brandao and Oskar Painter weigh in on "What is the future of quantum computing?" youtube.com/watch?v=6BcAYZ…

A quick learn of the Google progress. 2021 Year in Review: Google Quantum AI Google blog.google/technology/res…

Why 4-8 GHz?, by QuantumObserver quantumobserver.substack.com/p/why-4-8-ghz?… In which I answer a years-old question on Quantum Stack Exchange. Why ARE (were?) most qubits designed to have frequencies between 4-8 GHz? Why not 20, 40, or even 80 GHz? Why not 100 MHz?

I've been using Mendeley Desktop daily for years, & have an annotated library of thousands of pdfs. Today, I switched to Zotero. Here's a 🧵of tips on how to do this, if you're also tired of Elsevier's BS and want to make the switch w/minimal effort while maintaining workflow.

ZX calculus is now also entering into the toy market.

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Drone swarm dragon in China 😯

Remember that paper from the end of last year that claimed it could factor 2048 bit integers using 378 qubits? At the time, I mentioned to Tanuj Khattar that a nice starter paper would be to just simulate it and verify it doesn't work. Here's the result: arxiv.org/abs/2307.09651

Very interesting talk from Prof. Eliska @EliskaGreplova at Bad Honnef. Next time hope I can figure out which pattern has the lowest energy of Ising model faster :)

Please have a check our recent work on scaling up the number of controlled semiconductor spin qubits. This work goes beyond the single-spin qubits, encoding a qubit with two-spin states and enable the full baseband control like the way we control classical bits in our phone!

Researchers at TU Delft achieve universal control of a quantum dot system with four singlet-triplet qubits, advancing quantum computing scalability. Published in Nature Nanotechnology. Nature Nanotechnology doi.org/g8qw3r phys.org/news/2024-11-u…

In our February 2025 issue: - Renewable hydrogen & Solar cells. - Quantum circuits. - Electronic correlations in rhombohedral graphene. - β-Li3N solid-state electrolyte. - NIR-II scattering Au superclusters. - Targeted protein degradation, & more... nature.com/nnano/volumes/…