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Now published: Building Quantum Computers
Building Quantum Computers: A Practical Introduction by Shayan Majidy, Christopher Wilson, and Raymond Laflamme has been published by Cambridge University Press and will be released in the US on September 30. The authors invited...
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Congratulations to Prof. Norman Yao, the 2025 recipient of the I.I. Rabi Prize in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics "for pioneering contributions to broad areas of atomic, molecular, and optical physics, including quantum information, metrology,...
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Voyager 1 loses contact with NASA, turns on retro transmitter not used since 1981
Scientists lost contact with the interstellar Voyager 1 probe from Oct. 19 to Oct. 24, after a technical malfunction forced the spacecraft's main radio transmitter to shut down, NASA officials wrote in a blog...
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Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin endorses Trump for president
One of the United States' most famous space explorers is backing Donald Trump for president.Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second person ever to walk on the moon, endorsed Trump in a statement today...
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Imprinted atomic displacements drive spin–orbital order in a vanadate perovskite
Perovskites have important applications in diverse areas, including catalysis1, photovoltaics2 and electronics3. The versatility of this structural type derives from the possibility of tuning both the density of mobile charge carriers and the strength...
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French National Quantum Update — October 2024
Executive Summary
A steady cadence of news has streamed out of the quantum ecosystem in France during October 2024, a solid step in the last quarter of the year and a strong signal that 2024...
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Sculpting quantum steampunk | Quantum Frontiers
In 2020, many of us logged experiences that we’d never anticipated. I wrote a nonfiction book and got married outside the Harvard Faculty Club (because nobody was around to shoo us away). Equally unexpectedly,...