The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Say you want to send a private message, cast a secret vote, or sign a document securely. If you do any of these tasks on a computer, you ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A visual representation of tensor networks. (Lucy Reading-Ikkanda/Simons Foundation) Efforts to advance quantum computing are also ...
Laurent Simons is one of the most talked-about young minds in science today. At just 15, the Belgian prodigy defended a PhD in quantum physics at the University of Antwerp, reaching a level of ...
A Belgian teenager has become one of the youngest individuals in modern history to complete a PhD in quantum physics. But for A 15-year-old has just earned a PhD in quantum physics—and that’s only the ...
An illustration of a quantum system that was simulated by both classical and quantum computers. The highlighted sections show how the influence of the system’s components is confined to nearby ...
Laurent Simons became one of the world’s youngest PhD recipients in November, earning a doctorate in quantum physics from the University of Antwerp. The 15-year-old boy now plans to pursue a second ...