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Sculpting quantum steampunk
In 2020, many of us logged experiences that we’d never anticipated. I wrote a nonfiction book and got married outside the Harvard Faculty Club (because nobody was around to shoo us away). Equal...
https://quantumfrontiers.com/2024/10/27/sculpting-quantum-steampunk/
Now published: Building Quantum Computers
Building Quantum Computers: A Practical Introduction by Shayan Majidy, Christopher Wilson, and Raymond Laflamme has been published by Cambridge University Press and will be released in the US on ...
https://quantumfrontiers.com/2024/09/28/now-published-building-quantum-computers/
Announcing the quantum-steampunk creative-writing course!
Why not run a quantum-steampunk creative-writing course? Quantum steampunk, as Quantum Frontiers regulars know, is the aesthetic and spirit of a growing scientific field. Steampunk is a subgenre ...
https://quantumfrontiers.com/2024/09/18/announcing-the-quantum-steampunk-creative-writing-course/
How I didn’t become a philosopher (but wound up presenting a named philosophy lecture anyway)
Many people ask why I became a theoretical physicist. The answer runs through philosophy—which I thought, for years, I’d left behind in college. My formal relationship with philosophy origina...
The quantum gold rush
Even if you don’t recognize the name, you probably recognize the saguaro cactus. It’s the archetype of the cactus, a column from which protrude arms bent at right angles like elbows. As my hu...
https://quantumfrontiers.com/2024/03/17/the-quantum-gold-rush/
The rain in Portugal
My husband taught me how to pronounce the name of the city where I’d be presenting a talk late last July: Aveiro, Portugal. Having studied Spanish, I pronounced the name as Ah-VEH-roh, with a v...
https://quantumfrontiers.com/2024/02/18/the-rain-in-portugal/
Colliding the familiar and the anti-familiar at CERN
The most ingenious invention to surprise me at CERN was a box of chocolates. CERN is a multinational particle-physics collaboration. Based in Geneva, CERN is famous for having “the world’s la...
https://quantumfrontiers.com/2024/01/21/colliding-the-familiar-and-the-anti-familiar-at-cern/
Crossing the quantum chasm: From NISQ to fault tolerance
On December 6, I gave a keynote address at the Q2B 2023 Conference in Silicon Valley. Here is a transcript of my remarks. Toward quantum value The theme of this year’s Q2B meeting is “The Roa...
https://quantumfrontiers.com/2023/12/09/crossing-the-quantum-chasm-from-nisq-to-fault-tolerance/
The power of awe
Mid-afternoon, one Saturday late in September, I forgot where I was. I forgot that I was visiting Seattle for the second time; I forgot that I’d just finished co-organizing a workshop partially...