Quantum chemistry experiment on ISS creates exotic 5th state of matter. News. By Megan I. Gannon published 17 November 2023 ...

The notion of a topological state of matter, a phase of matter distinct from solids, liquids, or gases, might sound like abstract quantum mechanics. But it forms the backbone of this approach.

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Satya Nadella Unveils Microsoft’s Quantum Breakthrough: a New State of Matter Microsoft's latest breakthrough could make quantum computers a reality within years, not decades.

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In the mid-1920s, two absolute giants in the world of physics, Satyendra Nath Bose and Albert Einstein, theorized the existence of a strange quantum state of matter that’d eventually be named in ...