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There's a famous parable about a group of blind men encountering an elephant for the very first time. The first blind man, who had his hand on the elephant's side, said that it was like an enormous wall. The second blind man, wrapping his arms around the elephant's leg, exclaimed that surely it was a...
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Any quantum computer using superconducting Josephson junctions will have to be operated at extremely low temperatures. The D-Wave machine, for instance, runs at about 20 mK, which is much colder th
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Quantum computers would be exceptionally fast at a few specific tasks, but it appears that for most problems they would outclass today's computers only modestly. This realization may lead to a new fundamental physical principle
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In a recent series of papers [1-3], we have discovered a connection between non-perturbative quantum field theory and the (noncommutative) g...
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