Quantum Frontiers

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/

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/

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/

I met boatloads of physicists as a master’s student at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada. Researchers pass through Perimeter like diplomats through my current ...

https://quantumfrontiers.com/2024/08/11/always-appropriate/

A great childhood memory that I have comes from first playing “The Incredible Machine” on PC in the early 90’s. For those not in the know, this is a physics-based puzzle game about building...

https://quantumfrontiers.com/2024/08/05/building-a-visceral-understanding-of-quantum-phenomena/

Whenever someone protests, “I’m not a rocket scientist,” I think of my friend Jamie Rankin. Jamie is a researcher at Princeton University, and she showed me her lab this June. When I first ...

https://quantumfrontiers.com/2024/07/07/my-favorite-rocket-scientist/

If I ever mention a crazy high-school English teacher to you, I might be referring to Mr. Lukacs. One morning, before the first bell rang, I found him wandering among the lockers, wearing a white...

https://quantumfrontiers.com/2024/06/09/quantum-frontiers-salutes-an-english-teacher/

It’s the beginning of another summer, and I’m looking forward to outdoor barbecues, swimming in lakes and pools, and sharing my home-made ice cream with friends and family. One thing that I w...

https://quantumfrontiers.com/2024/06/06/watch-out-for-geese-my-summer-in-waterloo/

In four months, I’ll embark on the adventure of a lifetime—fatherhood. To prepare, I’ve been honing a quintessential father skill—storytelling. If my son inherits even a fraction of my ta...

https://quantumfrontiers.com/2024/05/22/film-noir-and-quantum-thermo/

One day, early this spring, I found myself in a hotel elevator with three other people. The cohort consisted of two theoretical physicists, one computer scientist, and what appeared to be a norma...

https://quantumfrontiers.com/2024/05/12/let-gravity-do-its-work/