Quantum Nanoelectronics: Devices at the Atomic Scale
Quantum nanoelectronics builds devices where quantum effects dominate, including quantum dots, superconducting qubits and spintronic parts.
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Quantum Foundations: The Questions Still Open
The open questions in the foundations of quantum mechanics: measurement, interpretation, non-locality and what the theory says about reality.
Quantum Linguistics: Meaning as Vector Composition
Quantum natural language processing represents word meanings as vectors and composes them with tensor rules. The ideas and their limits.
Quantum Biology: Where Quantum Effects Show Up
Quantum biology studies quantum effects in living systems: photosynthesis, bird navigation, enzyme tunneling and more speculative claims.
Quantum Annealing for Optimization: What It Solves
What quantum annealing can solve: how it works, how it compares with classical optimizers, its hardware and software, and applications.
Quantum Models of Ecosystem Dynamics
An exploration of quantum effects relevant to ecology, from energy transfer in photosynthesis to quantum computing for ecological models.
Quantum Models of Cognition: Theory and Criticism
Quantum models of cognition use the mathematics of quantum probability to describe human judgments. Key ideas, evidence and criticism.
Quantum Coherence in Biological Systems
What is known about quantum coherence in living systems, from photosynthesis and enzyme tunneling to more speculative ideas about the brain.
Quantum Annealing: How D-Wave Machines Solve Problems
How quantum annealing uses tunneling and a slowly changing transverse field to find low-energy solutions, how D-Wave machines work and where they help.
Quantum Computing for Beginners: Start Here
A starting point for beginners: the quantum physics behind quantum computing, including duality, superposition, entanglement and uncertainty.
The Quantum Mechanical Model: How It Replaced Bohr
How the quantum mechanical model replaced Bohr’s atom: the Schrödinger equation, quantum numbers, orbitals, electron clouds and energy levels.
The Quantum Jump: What Happens When States Change
What a quantum jump is: the sudden transition of a system between energy states, its history, recent experiments and related quantum ideas.
