If we could not find room for it, time to digest it, or a reason to run it during the past week, we have collected it here. Not a recap for the week, but a cleanup of pieces we received and just could not get to.
Because Quantum is Coming. Qubit.
UChicago scientists predict new state of matter; efficient movement of electricity and energy | Three scientists from the University of Chicago predict that there may be a way to make a material that could conduct both electricity and energy with 100% efficiency—never losing any to heat or friction. Their work, published in Physical Review B, suggests a framework for an entirely new type of matter, which could have very useful technological applications in the real world. Though the prediction is based on theory, efforts are underway to test it experimentally. Source: Green Car Congress. Green Car Congress, UChicago scientists predict new state of matter; efficient movement of electricity and energy…
Spin-preserving chiral photonic crystal mirror | Researchers from Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC), University of Waterloo have demonstrated a new planar chiral mirror that exhibits near unity reflectivity contrast for the opposite spin states of light. Conventional mirrors, e.g. metallic and dielectric mirrors, flip the spin of light upon reflection. However, the reported chiral structure is spin-preserving i.e. the selected helicity remains unchanged upon reflection. The spin-preserving mirrors can find potential applications in quantum information processing, quantum optics, atomic and molecular physics as well as fundamental studies of light-matter interactions. Source: EurekAlert!. University of Waterloo, Spin-preserving chiral photonic crystal mirror …
D-Wave: Quantum computing and machine learning are ‘extremely well matched’ | Following D-Wave’s announcement of Leap 2, a new version of its quantum cloud service for building and deploying quantum computing applications, VentureBeat had the opportunity to sit down with Murray Thom, D-Wave’s VP of software and cloud services. We naturally talked about Leap 2, including the improvements the company hopes it will bring for businesses and developers. But we also discussed the business applications D-Wave has already seen to date. Source: Venture Beat. Emil Protalinski, D-Wave: Quantum computing and machine learning are ‘extremely well matched’…
What Are Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices or SQUIDs? | There is no denying the complexity of quantum mechanics, but that can become even more complicated when we bring electronics into the mix. This does give us interesting situations that have such implications we give them their own field of study. Such is the case with Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices, or SQUIDs.
Source: Owlcation. Leonard Kelley, What Are Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices or SQUIDs?…
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