Quantum Thoughts

These posts are more or less digested, more or less baked, thoughts and insights related to the quantum world. Hopefully, you may find some of them fun and interesting.

  • The 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Quantum Dots
    In this piece, which is written in Norwegian, Sølve Selstø gives a brief explanation of last year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry. It certainly falls within the quantum scope. The piece was published in last year’s last issue of Fra fysikkens verden, which is published by Norsk fysisk selskap. Nobelprisen i kjemi 2023 er delt likt …
  • On Quantum Supremacy (some reflections induced by Maksym Teslyk’s post)
    He has attained supremacy in one particular line: he succeeds in inspiring a mysterious thrill (M. R. James) The concept of High Concept crystallized in Hollywood in the 1980s: A movie whose title answers the question “What that movie is about?” and whose plot can be explained in two sentences. It is a highly visual …
  • On the origin of quantum advantage, by Maksym Teslyk
    Quantum computing seems to be a popular trend all over the word nowadays. Many of us have heard that private companies, e.g., D-Wave Systems, Google quantum AI, IBM with its very latest quantum processor Condor, etc., are working hard on the construction and design of quantum computation facilities. Even more on that, the academic community …
  • Where relativity meets the quantum
    A while ago, in an episode of the popular Scandinavian talk show Skavlan, the founder of Norwegian Air Shuttle, Bjørn Kjos, met with famous mathematician and Fields medalist Cedric Villani. Kjos was talking about how he had been trying to solve the Schrödinger equation – seemingly impressing Villani quite a bit. “Wow, you are brave!” …
  • Schrödinger’s Tardigrade, by Sergiy Denysov
    So far there is only one animal was involved into quantum physics, that is the famous Schrödinger’s cat. Now some researchers claim that there is one more. In February 2019, I came across the piece “Quantum theory: the weird world of teleportation, tardigrades and entanglement” [1]: Gröblacher is also interested in experiments involving living creatures …