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by Jonas Helsen A few weeks ago I found myself boarding a series of planes that would take me from the Netherlands to pretty much the furthest point reachable ...
by David DiVincenzo The first time that I heard that there were “DiVincenzo criteria” was when Richard Hughes of Los Alamos contacted me in the fall of 2001, telling ...
by Helsen, Kroll, Rol and van Dam The phone was ringing in the lab, Sophie let it ring a few times before looking up from her experiment. She was ...
by Michiel de Moor Even if you’re in a niche research field, it seems almost impossible to keep up with all the scientific literature that has been coming out ...
By Hans Mooij Introduction When did we have our first quantum bit? To answer, one needs to agree on the definition. When does a two-level system become a qubit? ...
By Jelmer Boter In the fall of 2015 QuTech and Intel Corporation joined forces in an active collaboration working on the realisation of a quantum computer. The collaboration comprises ...
Perhaps you have become convinced that sharing quantum entanglement with a distant party is a useful resource. By itself, it might not allow you to communicate the weather to ...
by Tom O’Brien If you’re reading a blog named ‘bits of quantum’, I guess I can assume you know a little bit about quantum computing and have a rough ...
by Christian Dickel There are different kinds of scientific papers. Some are like James Joyce’s Ulysses – you really want to read them but you have never made it ...
By James Kroll Research in academic is a tough, gruelling but ultimately rewarding job (otherwise we wouldn’t work so hard at it!). Usually if you ask a scientist about ...
by Suzanne van Dam Last Thursday was the yearly Applied Physics sports day. As is tradition, QuTech participated in big numbers. We competed with three teams, and it was ...
by Jonas Helsen So this post will be a bit more, let’s say, philosophical. I’d like to share some of my thoughts on a particular subject which has always ...
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