In a week when Google announced it is starting a neutral-atom group, Atomique had two burning questions: Quantuessa will answer the second question. BTW, I sometimes get asked how I came to join QuEra and work on neutral atoms. About
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Month: March 2026
Quantum Hype
Imagine walking through an auto show and seeing a sleek, glowing concept car. The builder promises it will soon fly you to work while you sleep. That sounds amazing, but the cars actually driving outside are still running on gas
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Quantum Superposition
In everyday life, things have definite states. A coin on a table is either heads or tails. But at the quantum scale, particles don’t work that way. A quantum particle like an atom or an electron can be prepared so
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Schrödinger’s Cat
In 1935, physicist Erwin Schrödinger proposed a thought experiment to show how strange quantum mechanics really is. Imagine you put a cat in a sealed box with a tiny bit of radioactive material, a detector, and a vial of poison.
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Qubit – A Quantum Bit
A regular computer stores everything as bits, and each bit is either a 0 or a 1. Think of it like a light switch: off or on, nothing in between. A qubit (short for “quantum bit”) is the quantum computing
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