This metaphorical cat is both dead and alive – and it will help quantum engineers detect computing errors
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A team led by UNSW quantum engineers has created a “Schrödinger’s cat” – a famous quantum thought experiment – inside a silicon chip.
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Original Title: Researchers complete real-world “Schrödinger’s cat” experiment by embedding an atom of antimony inside a silicon chip. The findings provide a new and more robust way to perform quantum computations and have important implications for quantum error correction

  • Curious CanidEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Whoever decided to have them hold cats is a demented genius.