Insider Brief The European Union has approved €25 million for the SUPREME consortium, matched by national funding to reach a €50 million first-phase program to industrialise superconducting quantum technologies across Europe starting in early 2026. […]
A new light-based breakthrough could help quantum computers finally scale up. Stanford researchers created miniature optical cavities that efficiently collect light from individual atoms, allowing many qubits to be read at once. The team has […]
A newly detected gravitational wave, GW250114, is giving scientists their clearest look yet at a black hole collision—and a powerful way to test Einstein’s theory of gravity. Its clarity allowed scientists to measure multiple “tones” […]
Last night, I was taken aback to discover that my name appears in the Epstein Files, in 26 different documents. This is despite the fact that I met Jeffrey Epstein a grand total of zero […]
Dates: Friday, May 22, 2026 to Tuesday, May 26, 2026 Organising group(s): Theoretical Quantum Optics Group of Siegen Web page: PenteQost26 Registration deadline: Monday, January 5, 2026 Submission deadline: Monday, January 5, 2026 PenteQost Spring […]
In some solid materials under specific conditions, mutual Coulomb interactions shape electrons into many-body correlated states, such as Wigner crystals, which are essentially solids made of electrons. So far, the Wigner crystal state remains sensitive […]
Insider Brief Two new studies show that moving the most time-consuming classical step in hybrid quantum algorithms onto GPUs can cut runtimes from hours to minutes, narrowing the gap between classical processing and quantum execution. […]
Researchers have discovered a hidden quantum geometry inside materials that subtly steers electrons, echoing how gravity warps light in space. Once thought to exist only on paper, this effect has now been observed experimentally in […]
The following guest post was written by a Shtetl-Optimized fan in Iran, who’s choosing to remain anonymous for obvious reasons. I’m in awe of the courage of this individual and the millions of other Iranians […]
Insider Brief The Netherlands risks losing its global lead in quantum technology unless it invests roughly €9–€10 billion to help domestic companies scale from research to industrial production. A lack of growth capital leaves Dutch […]
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