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Read More »The CERN particle accelerator that will breathe new life into physics
The results of proton collisions absorbed by screens at the LHC Fichet, Jacques Herve/CERN TO GET to Edda Gschwendtner’s experiment, you enter a small, brutalist building at CERN, Europe’s particle physics laboratory on the outskirts of Geneva, Switzerland. You head into the lift and descend 50 metres into a vast …
Read More »Weird particle that remembers its past discovered by quantum computer
A mysterious and long-sought particle that can remember its past has been created using a quantum computer. The particle, called an anyon, could improve the performance of quantum computers in the future. The anyon is unlike any other particle we know because it keeps a kind of record of where …
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