3月11日，中国科学技术大学潘建伟、朱晓波、龚明与北京大学袁骁合作，作为共同通讯作者带领多家科研机构，上百人研究团队在物理学顶级期刊《Nature Physics》上报道了一维与二维簇态在拓扑相模拟及测量的量子计算中的应用。 量子纠缠是量子信息处理的基本 ...

New research from the Complexity Science Hub (CSH) shows why widely used algorithms for measuring economic complexity produce trustworthy results and how these tools may benefit diverse areas such as ...

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“This project started with a simple question: why do basketball shoes squeak?” Adel Djellouli, a study co-author and materials scientist at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), ...

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All the tech we rely on, from cars to smartphones, was engineered using physics. You don’t need to know the science to use these things. But a well-rounded human should understand at least some of the ...

The British-American theoretical physicist Anthony Leggett died on 8 March at the age of 87. Leggett shared the 2003 Nobel ...

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An overview of Pei Zhong’s work over the past several decades reveals how fundamental engineering research — often done far from the clinic — plays a critical role in shaping safer, more effective ...