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- Mapping Noise to Improve Quantum Measurements
One of the biggest challenges in quantum technology and quantum sensing is “noise”–seemingly random environmental disturbances that can disrupt the delicate quantum states of qubits, the fundamental units of quantum information. Looking…
Read More - The Interference of Many Atoms, and a New Approach to Boson Sampling
In daily life, when two objects are “indistinguishable,” it’s due to an imperfect state of knowledge. As a street magician scrambles the cups and balls, you could, in principle, keep track of which ball is which as they are passed…
Read More - Hungry, Hungry White Dwarfs: Solving the Puzzle of Stellar Metal Pollution
Dead stars known as white dwarfs, have a mass like the Sun while being similar in size to Earth. They are common in our galaxy, as 97% of stars are white dwarfs. As stars reach the end of their lives, their cores collapse into the dense…
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