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Nobel Prize in physics awarded for ultracold electronics research that launched a quantum technology

  • Written by Eli Levenson-Falk, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy and Electrical and Computer Engineering, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
imageThe quantum behavior of superconducting circuits like the small white square above was a major discovery.K. Cicak and R. Simmonds/NIST

Quantum mechanics describes the weird behavior of microscopic particles. Using quantum systems to perform computation promises to allow researchers to solve problems in areas from chemistry to cryptography that...

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