quantum
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Researchers at Aalto University have now taken an important step by demonstrating the first cyclic quantum heat engine built inside a superconducting circuit.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
Quantum computing uses the principles of quantum physics to solve problems far beyond the capabilities of today’s best supercomputers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Achieving this kind of cyclic operation has been an important objective for researchers working on quantum heat engines.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
While the timelines on commercially meaningful quantum computers are sometimes vague and debated, enterprises are investing today.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Overbye notes: "Bohr once commented that a person who wasn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn’t understand what had been said."
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
The challenge with Josephson junctions is that their behavior unfolds at the level of individual quanta.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 23, 2025
At wide-open throttle, the raunchiness doesn’t come in wild quanta but in one smoothly linear, incredibly steep exponential function, with no interval for tactility and feedback.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
Quantum theory typically deals with the universe in tiny chunks, or quanta, while general relativity takes the cosmos to be continuous even at the smallest scales.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 19, 2023
General relativity does not contain any notion of quanta; a quantum theory of gravity is an ambition that remains unfinished today.
From New York Times ● May 8, 2023
They vibrate only with certain acceptable energies, called quanta.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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