Physics World

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Solving hard problems: the quantum optimization challenge is the cover feature of the February 2022 issue of Physics World. Quantum computers are often touted as the solution to all our problems – be it curing disease, alleviating hunger or solving climate change. For the record, here’s a rundown of what else is in the issue.

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Physics World

JUNE 14, 2021

Quantum advantage is a hot topic, with multiple experiments approaching (and some even surpassing ) the point at which a quantum technology performs better than its classical predecessor. But how often does quantum advantage arise, and under what circumstances is it possible? What was the motivation for your research?

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Physics World

MAY 10, 2022

Possible realms Nicole Yunger Halpern uses the concept of steampunk to explore and explain quantum technologies. Quantum technologies, on the other hand, are as futuristic as they come, embodied in the almost caricaturish hi-tech cryogenic coils of the quantum computer. Courtesy: iStock/Adelevin).

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Physics World

JUNE 22, 2021

If a 1 kg mass is dropped from a height of 100 m, what is its velocity when it hits the ground? My eldest daughter is currently grappling with such thorny questions in her physics lessons, but one answer she is not expected to give is: when, exactly, did this happen? She offers a delightful metaphor.

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Physics World

MARCH 24, 2022

What are you? These are three deceptively simple-sounding questions. It is the relatively recent insights into these three profound questions that are the subject of Youniverse: a Short Guide to Modern Science by novelist and “lifelong learner” Elsie Burch Donald. The third question “Where are you going?” Who are you?

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Physics World

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The laws of physics have been helping to keep sensitive information secret for well over a decade, with banks and other organizations using quantum cryptography to carry out very secure communications. Quantum threat. But new research shows that special relativity can also be exploited to guarantee secrecy. Provers and verifiers.

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Physics World

JUNE 14, 2022

Quantum effects play a hitherto unexpected role in creating instabilities in DNA – the so-called “molecule of life” that provides instructions for cellular processes in all living organisms. However, it is only now that this DNA bond modification process has been accurately quantified, and its quantum element understood.

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Physics World

MARCH 17, 2022

Promoting this type of communication is a key goal of Quantum Business Europe (QBE), a conference that brings together researchers and industry leaders to spark collaborations and accelerate the quantum revolution in Europe. technology: computing, communications and sensing.

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Physics World

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

In this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast, the cosmologist and theoretical physicist Laura Mersini-Houghton of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill joins us to talk about big questions in cosmology such as why did the universe come into existence and what, if anything, existed before the Big Bang?

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Physics World

DECEMBER 15, 2021

How did you get into quantum tech? In 2013 – as head of strategy at the ministry – I visited the University of Technology in Delft to hear about their plans to start a quantum institute. Three years later the Netherlands held the presidency of the European Union and we helped to launch the € 1bn Quantum Flagship programme.

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Physics World

JUNE 8, 2021

What skills do you use every day in your job? These are what have most shaped me over my career. What do you like best and least about your job? What excites me most is still my research and uncovering the secrets of physical reality buried within dense mathematics. What do I like least?

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AUGUST 5, 2021

For Maria Violaris, who graduated with a degree in physics from the University of Oxford in 2020, the main motivation to do a summer internship was to find out what it’s like to work in industry. She applied with a CV and cover letter, followed by a video call in which she was asked physics-related technical questions.

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Physics World

APRIL 20, 2022

It was a question that worried Descartes: if we’re all being fooled, how can we prove that science is really telling us truths about the world? It was a question that worried Descartes: if we’re all being fooled, how can we prove that science is really telling us truths about the world?

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Physics World

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

It aims to understand “from the viewpoint of the theoretical physicist, what may loosely be characterised as intelligent processes in nature, associated with brain function or with some other natural process”. Josephson’s interests even touch on homeopathy and cold fusion – two areas in which few physicists would dare to dabble.

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Physics World

APRIL 12, 2022

In my case, I moved into intellectual property nearly 10 years ago after doing a PhD in quantum computing at the University of Leeds in the UK, followed by a postdoc in the same subject at Louisiana State University in the US. Apart from the most obvious one – what exactly is a patent? And what sort of training is involved?

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Physics World

OCTOBER 25, 2021

In October 2020 Physics World took part in the first ever #BlackInPhysics week , an event dedicated to celebrating Black physicists and revealing a more complete picture of what physicists look like. It was very stressful for me and I started to question my place in physics,” Williams recalls. Courtesy: Baylor Photography).

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AUGUST 4, 2023

What aspect of your work are you most excited about at the moment? In your opinion, what are the most important questions to be asked/answered in this field of research? In your opinion, what are the most important questions to be asked/answered in this field of research? Lin received his Ph.D.

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Physics World

JULY 1, 2021

To replicate the wonders of the human hand, researchers in the field of “soft robotics” are trying to design artificial structures made from flexible, compliant materials the can be controlled and programmed by computers. Trouble is, the hand is such a complex structure that it needs lots of computing power to be properly controlled.

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Physics World

APRIL 11, 2022

When exploring an unfamiliar place, many of us default to a rather modern method of navigation: watching a blue dot move around a map, on a screen, and course-correcting to keep it on the right track. As it happens, our devices do already have so-called “inertial sensors” designed to do exactly this. The problem is they are not very reliable.

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Physics World

JULY 5, 2021

Cool heads and clear thinking are mandatory in the competitive world of front-line research as academic leaders strive for that winning – and sustainable – combination of visibility, recognition and impact that will set their physics programmes apart from the rest of the field. world-leading”).

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Physics World

JUNE 4, 2021

Problem solver Cambridge Quantum Computing’s Ilyas Khan. Courtesy: Cambridge Quantum Computing). What does Cambridge Quantum Computing do? We’re a quantum computing software and algorithm company, and we’re just over six and a half years old, so we’re in early adolescence.

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Physics World

MAY 30, 2021

We’ve all heard about the promise of quantum technologies to transform business and industry, whether it be for more secure communications networks or vastly more powerful computation. But what is needed to translate experimental quantum research into commercial success, and when can we expect it to happen?

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Physics World

APRIL 4, 2022

They have provided foundational insights that led to the development of the quantum theory of solids. Courtesy: Google AI Quantum). What is common between these periodic patterns – either in space or time – is that they lead to systems with reduced symmetries. Periodic oscillations are another ubiquitous phenomenon.

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Physics World

JULY 6, 2022

For decades, quantum spin liquids were seen as largely hypothetical, with real-world examples thought to exist only in unusual systems such as quasi-one-dimensional chain-like magnets and a handful of two-dimensional materials. Quantum mechanics explains this frustration by suggesting that the orientation of the spins is not rigid.

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Physics World

JULY 17, 2021

The incident – which was recorded on the livestreaming platform Twitch – caught the attention of another prominent gamer “pannenkoek12”, who was determined to explain what had happened, even offering a $1000 reward to anyone who could replicate the glitch. The culprit, again, was most likely cosmic radiation.

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Environmental Science

AUGUST 7, 2018

What is Physics? It is the science dedicated to understanding how our world and the universe behaves and why it does what it does. It seems that every time there is a new discovery in physics, it throws up more questions than answers and opens new fields of study. All of our modern sciences take their names from ancient Greek.

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Physics World

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Scientists from QuiX Quantum and the adaptive quantum optics group at the University of Twente in the Netherlands have built the largest universal photonic quantum processor to date. These results have been published in Materials for Quantum Technology. The photonic processor and its delicate engineering.

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Physics World

DECEMBER 2, 2021

When the world’s “first quantum computer” hit the market in 2015, the response was decidedly mixed. But some accused the makers, the quantum-computing company D-Wave Systems from Burnaby in Canada, of hyping the abilities of its machine – which was not even unanimously agreed to be making use of quantum principles at all.

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Physics World

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Research into quantum technologies has advanced so much over the past decade that the underlying science is rapidly being translated into real-world applications – be it quantum computers, materials or communications systems. Similarly, quantum technology has its own specific ethical challenges and dilemmas.

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Physics World

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Quantum technology has made great strides over the past two decades and physicists are now able to construct and manipulate systems that were once in the realm of thought experiments. One particularly fascinating avenue of inquiry is the fuzzy border between quantum and classical physics. Selection criteria.

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ESA

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Here’s what we know. Here’s what we know. In this issue: ESA and COP26. ESA urges world leaders to limit rising temperatures to 1.5? White House to roll out ‘climate framework.’ The White House is poised to reveal a trove of information about U.S. climate progress ahead of COP 26. Federal Register opportunities. ESA and COP26.

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ESA

MARCH 14, 2022

stay ahead of international competition in key areas such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing and climate science. In this issue: Lawmakers Pass Fiscal Year 2022 Spending Bills. NSF receives a four percent increase. ESA Stands with Ukraine. Supreme Court hears Clean Power Plan case. International. NSF is funded at $8.84

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 14, 2021

While questions remain regarding what path an infrastructure package will take, the President and many Democrats have remained steadfast in the need for strongly addressing climate. President Biden’s $2 trillion American Jobs Plan was released by the White House on March 31, 2021. ” Senate Republicans, led by Sen.

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ESA

APRIL 5, 2021

What We’re Reading. Biden Infrastructure Plan Includes Funding for Natural Infrastructure, Scientific Infrastructure. $2 2 trillion plan includes $50 billion to create a new technology directorate for NSF. Lawmakers Introduce Competing Proposals to Increase Science Funding. Executive Branch. Scientific Community. to “out-compete China.”

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ESA

JULY 26, 2021

This includes research about atmospheric composition, water and carbon cycles, computational modeling of climate systems, renewable energy technologies, materials sciences, and social, behavior and economic research on human responses to climate change. Senators reintroduce Recovering America’s Wildlife Act. Executive Branch. International.

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