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NASA selects 6 proposals to provide new insights from openly available data in the physical computer system

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Comparison of gas-liquid multiphase flow under normal, lunar and zero gravity.

NASA’s Physical Sciences Research Program selected six ground-based proposals in response to the Physical Sciences Information System Call for Proposals. This program element is part of the Earth and Space Sciences Research Opportunities – 2022 (ROSES-2022) solicitation of the Science Mission Directorate (SMD). These six research projects, involving recognized experts in the fields of biophysics, … Read more

How splitting sound could lead to a new kind of quantum computer

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The conversation

When you turn on a lamp to light up a room, you’re experiencing light energy transmitted as photons, which are small, discrete quantum packets of energy. These photons have to obey the sometimes strange laws of quantum mechanics, which, for example, dictate that photons are indivisible, but at the same time allow a photon to … Read more

Google’s quantum computer is so fast it’s scary

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Google's quantum computer is so fast it's scary

By Sean Thiessen | Published 16 seconds ago A quantum computer What’s faster than a supercomputer? A quantum computer from Google, that’s what. As reported by Science Alert, pioneering scientists in the strange world of quantum computing have just performed a test of numerical computation with the Sycamore quantum computer. It accomplished in seconds what … Read more

A new kind of quantum computer could be built on the strange physics of sound waves

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diagram of the sound beam crossing and reflected by a splitter

When you turn on a lamp to light up a room, you’re experiencing light energy transmitted as photons, which are small, discrete quantum packets of energy. These photons have to obey the sometimes strange laws of quantum mechanics, which, for example, dictate that photons are indivisible, but at the same time allow a photon to … Read more

How split sound could lead to a new kind of quantum computer

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A diagram showing a line representing a beam splitter, hitting a phonon. Two dashed lines on either side of the beam splitter line indicate that the phonon is both reflected from the beam splitter and transmitted to the other side, superimposed.

When you turn on a lamp to light up a room, you’re experiencing light energy transmitted as photons, which are small, discrete quantum packets of energy. These photons have to obey the sometimes strange laws of quantum mechanics, which, for example, dictate that photons are indivisible, but at the same time allow a photon to … Read more