A joint research team from Japan has observed “heavy fermions,” electrons with dramatically enhanced mass, exhibiting quantum entanglement governed by the Planckian time – the fundamental unit of time in quantum mechanics. This discovery opens up exciting possibilities for harnessing this phenomenon in solid-state materials to develop a new type of quantum computer.
In the everyday world that humans experience, objects behave in a predictable way, explained by classical physics. One of the important aspects of classical physics is that nothing travels faster than the speed of light. Even information is subject to this rule. However, in the 1930s, scientists discovered that very small particles abide by some very different rules. One of the more mind-boggling behaviors exhibited by these particles was quantum entanglement—which Albert Einstein termed “spooky action at a distance.”
In quantum entanglement, two particles can become entangled—meaning their properties are correlated with each other and measuring these properties will always give you opposite results (i.e., if one is oriented up, the other must be down). The strange part is that you still get correlated measurements instantaneously, even if these particles are very far away from each other.
If information cannot travel faster than the speed of light, then there should not be a way for one particle to immediately know the state of the other. This “spooky” quantum property is referred to as “nonlocality”—exhibiting effects that should not be possible at large distances in classical mechanics.
Whenever we mull over what film to watch on Netflix, or deliberate between different products on an e-commerce platform, the gears of recommendation algorithms spin under the hood. These systems sort through sprawling datasets to deliver personalized suggestions. However, as data becomes richer and more interconnected, today’s algorithms struggle to keep pace with capturing relationships that span more than just pairs, such as group ratings, cross-category tags, or interactions shaped by time and context.
A team of researchers led by Professor Kavan Modi from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) has taken a conceptual leap into this complexity by developing a new quantum framework for analyzing higher-order network data.
Their work centers on a mathematical field called topological signal processing (TSP), which encodes more than connections between pairs of points but also among triplets, quadruplets, and beyond. Here, “signals” are information that lives on higher-dimensional shapes (triangles or tetrahedra) embedded in a network.
In a major step toward next-generation electronics, researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities have discovered a way to manipulate the direction of charge flow in ultrathin metallic films at room temperature using light. This discovery opens the door to more energy-efficient optical sensors, detectors, and quantum information devices.
The research is published in Science Advances.
The team showed that ultra-thin layers of ruthenium dioxide (RuO2), grown on titanium dioxide (TiO2), can be made to behave differently depending on direction—both in how they respond to light and how electricity moves through them.
Neural networks revolutionized machine learning for classical computers: self-driving cars, language translation and even artificial intelligence software were all made possible. It is no wonder, then, that researchers wanted to transfer this same power to quantum computers—but all attempts to do so brought unforeseen problems.
Recently, however, a team at Los Alamos National Laboratory developed a new way to bring these same mathematical concepts to quantum computers by leveraging something called the Gaussian process.
“Our goal for this project was to see if we could prove that genuine quantum Gaussian processes exist,” said Marco Cerezo, the Los Alamos team’s lead scientist. “Such a result would spur innovations and new forms of performing quantum machine learning.”
Go visit a sacred ancient site, if possible one featuring a high density of megalithic architecture, and when you get back tell me, hand on heart, you didn’t feel something. Modern archaeology, for all the good that it has done, does not seem to respect this point. (Please see the article under the same name on my Substack for an extended ontological explanation as to why.)
Something is ambiguous, absurd, certainly strange (see: Kastrup, 2012).
Let’s talk about strangeness. Your first thought may be the “paranormal”. Those into the phenomena may think of “high strangeness”. Historians may recount a primary source or two that sticks out from the literature. Classicists may see myth. Some of you may even recollect a personal experience. Maybe one you heard from a family member or that omnipresent friend of a friend of a friend.
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CERN scientists have analyzed a particle of antimatter isolated in an undecided quantum state known as a superposition for the first time.
While the quantum behavior of ordinary matter has been studied extensively and even used as the basis of quantum computers in the form of qubits, the breakthrough goes far beyond technological applications, potentially helping physicists understand why we even exist today.
The team suspended an antiproton – the antimatter counterpart of the proton – in a system of electromagnetic traps, and suppressed environmental interference that would mess with the particle’s delicate quantum state.