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17.11.2022 by Remon Berrevoets

Do it safe, do it quantum!

By Remon Berrevoets The future of encryption Encryption is all around us; from sending a WhatsApp message to securing digital bank transactions. Digital encryption is a way of making messages unrecognizable by scrambling them using a digital key, a list of zeros and ones. The scrambled message can only be decoded and read with ...

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03.11.2022 by Valentin John

A Eurocrat’s guide to quantum computing

A Eurocrat’s guide to quantum computing by Valentin John Are you a Europhile or ...

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21.04.2022 by David van Driel

Van Keramiek tot Quantum/From Ceramics to Quantum Mechanics 2

Van Keramiek tot Quantum/From Ceramics to Quantum Mechanics 2 How Delft became the city ...

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08.04.2022 Authors

March meeting-2022 experiences

APS March Meeting 2022 by QuTech blog editors With the first hybrid APS March ...

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08.03.2022 by QuTech Blog Editors

"I didn’t know that we allowed whores in the lab"

I didn’t know that we allowed whores in the lab And more examples of being a woman in science. “Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.” ...

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24.12.2021 Blog Editors

What type of QuTech qubit are you?

Which QuTech qubit type are you? by QuTech blog editors For those who have always wondered: find out which qubit type your personality fits best by responding to the ...

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09.12.2021 by Sayr Motz

How to Support Your Trans Colleagues

How to Support Your Trans Colleagues by Sayr Motz Hello, my name is Sayr and I use they/them pronouns. I’m nonbinary, which means that I’m neither man nor woman ...

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25.11.2021 by Aletta Meinsma

Goodbye to ‘quantum supremacy’?

Goodbye to ‘quantum supremacy’? by Aletta Meinsma On October, 2019, the news got picked up widely: “Google Claims a Quantum Breakthrough That Could Change Computing” headlined The New York ...

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11.11.2021 by David van Driel

Van Keramiek tot Quantum/From Ceramics to Quantum Mechanics

by David van Driel Diagram taken from: H. A. Kramers and Helge Holst, The Atom and the Bohr Theory of its Structure (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926) Tile ...

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15.07.2021 by Pablo Cova Fariña

Analog quantum simulations with blue, big-eyed quantum dots

by Pablo Cova Fariña The world of quantum mechanics is quite a bizarre one. Take a bunch of particles, let them interact for a while and soon your computer ...

cartoon: where's rabi
01.07.2021 by Christian Andersen

Where is the Rabi oscillation?

by Christian Andersen If you are an experimentalist and you want to check if you have a qubit in your experiment, then you may know that a good way ...

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23.04.2021 by Tim Coopmans

How much GB do you need to back-up your quantum computer?

by Tim Coopmans A single quantum computer can be as powerful as a skyscraper-high pile of laptops – which is a curse for those designing it I work on ...