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A recent Quantum paper with lead author Alex Dalzell prompted the IEEE Spectrum article "How Many Qubits Are Needed for Quantum Supremacy? (Whether Google achieved quantum supremacy depends on perspective)". [...]
Five years ago, I was staring out one of the few windowed cubicles in a cluttered office full of overambitious salespeople willing to throw their own father under a bus, [...]
Most readers of this blog already know that when it comes to physics, I am faking it. I am a mathematician, after all, and even that is a bit of [...]
This blog has made the terrible decision to ask me to do more regular posts. Well, before trial and error catches up with me, let’s have some fun together… As [...]
John Preskill's lecture, Introduction to Quantum Information (part 1 of 2), given at the 12th Canadian Summer School on Quantum Information in 2012.
Part 2 of John Preskill’s lecture, Introduction to Quantum Information, given at the 12th Canadian Summer School on Quantum Information in 2012.
When Scientific American writes that physicists are working on a theory of everything, does it sound ambitious enough to you? Do you lie awake at night thinking that a theory of [...]
Last Monday was an exciting day! After following the BICEP2 announcement via Twitter, I had to board a transcontinental flight, so I had 5 uninterrupted hours to think about what [...]
On one of my many short-lived attempts to study for the International Physics Olympiad, I picked up a copy of a well-known textbook by Halliday and Resnick. My high school [...]
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in the case of poetry, [...]