The heart’s electrical system keeps all its muscle cells beating in sync. A hard whack to the chest at the wrong moment, however, can set up unruly waves of abnormal electrical excitation that are potentially […]
Insider Brief The NATO Innovation Fund aims to address the significant underfunding of the market for deep tech innovation. Verticals include artificial intelligence (AI), biotechnology, energy & propulsion, manufacturing and space technologies. The fund aims […]
Nothing exists in a vacuum, but physicists often wish this weren’t the case. If the systems that scientists study could be completely isolated from the outside world, things would be a lot easier. Take quantum […]
Insider Brief SMART Photonics has secured an additional round of funding of €100 million from a group of strategic industry and financial Dutch players. The company is a Dutch foundry for photonic integrated circuits. The […]
In 2017, a team of scientists from Germany trekked to Chile to investigate how living organisms sculpt the face of the Earth. A local ranger guided them through Pan de Azúcar, a roughly 150-square-mile national […]
Quantum 7, 1058 (2023). https://doi.org/10.22331/q-2023-07-12-1058 Surface code error correction offers a highly promising pathway to achieve scalable fault-tolerant quantum computing. When operated as stabilizer codes, surface code computations consist of a syndrome decoding step where […]
Insider Brief QAI Ventures announced the selection of its first cohort of startups for the QAI Ventures Accelerator program. Startups include Anaqor, Kipu Quantum, Miraex, Moonlight AI and qdc. QAI Ventures is a Quantum-focused VC […]
Insider Brief A team of University of Chicago scientists found links at the atomic level between photosynthesis and exciton condensates. The condensate allows energy to flow frictionlessly through a material. Researchers suggest the findings may […]
Quantum 7, 1057 (2023). https://doi.org/10.22331/q-2023-07-12-1057 Semidefinite programs are optimization methods with a wide array of applications, such as approximating difficult combinatorial problems. One such semidefinite program is the Goemans-Williamson algorithm, a popular integer relaxation technique. […]
Quantum 7, 1056 (2023). https://doi.org/10.22331/q-2023-07-12-1056 Random walks (or Markov chains) are models extensively used in theoretical computer science. Several tools, including analysis of quantities such as hitting and mixing times, are helpful for devising randomized […]
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