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Replication is a cornerstone of science, yet even in the natural sciences, attempts to reproduce results do not always succeed. Quantum computing promises machines that can solve certain problems far beyond today’s computers, but it faces a stubborn obstacle: quantum information is extremely fragile...
Quantum Computing Breakthrough: Scientists Finally Unlock the Secret of Majorana Qubits
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Scientists have finally figured out how to read ultra-secure Majorana qubits—bringing robust quantum computing a big step closer. “This is a crucial advance,” says Ramón Aguado, a CSIC researcher at the Madrid Institute of Materials Science (ICMM) and co author of the study. He explains that the tea...
A new ultra-fast monitoring system reveals that quantum computer qubits can change from stable to unstable in mere milliseconds. Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute have dramatically increased how quickly changes in delicate quantum states can be detected inside a qubit. By combining commerciall...
NbRe may be a long-sought triplet superconductor, offering zero-resistance spin transport and major advances in quantum computing. Physicists have searched for decades for materials known as triplet superconductors because of their potential to enable extremely energy-efficient technologies. These m...
Harvard Scientists Demonstrate First Quantum Computing Method At Room-Temperature
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Talk at the Los Angeles chapter of Papers We Love
This is a colloquium style talk which presents the idea of the "posit", a possible replacement for IEEE 754 floats. He starts talking about posits at the 15 minute mark.
"This course tries to connect quantum computing to the wider intellectual world. We'll start out with various scientific, mathematical, or philosophical problems that predate quantum computing: for example, the measurement problem, P versus NP, the existence of secure cryptography, the Humean proble...
The field of computer science summarized in a video.
Paper is [here](https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.01082). Abstract:
"We present the first protocol allowing a classical computer to interactively verify the result of an efficient quantum computation. We achieve this by constructing a measurement protocol, which enables a classical verifier to use a qua...