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Effective quantum error correction is essential to scale gate-model systems, which are expected to be capable of solving useful, real-world problems in areas such as quantum chemistry, fluid dynamics, and materials science. At D-Wave, we believe error awareness is a critical step in overcoming that challenge. Error awareness is a unique capability made possible by D-Wave’s dual-rail gate-model architecture, combining error detection and real-time control to provide visibility into errors as they occur and the ability to respond to them during computation. Learn more here: dwavequantum.com/learn/blog/… #QuantumComputing #GateModel #QuantumErrorCorrection

Time is money, safewords are surveilled and copied, two-factor-auth seems no help, the shipyard seems fine

Quantinuum has achieved a major industry breakthrough that solves a critical error-correction bottleneck and validates our path to delivering a fault-tolerant quantum computer by 2029. We’ve announced a new world record for quantum error correction, achieving 99.9995% logical fidelity on our Helios commercial quantum computer using our error-correction architecture. Equivalent to just five errors in a million operations, the result is 10× better than our previous record achieved just last month and 100× better than the best published result on any other hardware modality. The study also demonstrated a record 12× reduction in logical errors as code distance increased, a critical step toward scalable fault tolerance. These successive breakthroughs using different codes on the same commercial hardware demonstrate how Quantinuum's flexible error-correction architecture and highly accurate trapped-ion technology work together to enable exponential improvements in accuracy, with performance now within the target range for Apollo, our first universal fault-tolerant quantum computer planned for 2029. Learn more: quantinuum.com/press-release…

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NASA is testing a solar sail spacecraft that uses sunlight for propulsion, without conventional fuel. Launched aboard a Rocket Lab rocket, it demonstrates a new way to travel through space. Future solar sail technology could help spacecraft reach Mars in as little as 26 days.

Jeff hat den besten Job auf dem Planeten Erde

SwRI develops drone-detection system with event-based, neuromorphic cameras ow.ly/e1rr50ZXAH5

At SwRI, we’re excited to dish about a different kind of PaSTA. The patented Parallelogram Synchronized Truss Assembly (PaSTA) technology provides a structural backbone for solar panels to deploy in space to support operations such as refueling. #NationalPastaDay

The trajectory of 1I/2017 U1, or 'Oumuamua—the first known interstellar object to pass through our solar system

What does an invisible magnetic field look like? 🧲 Scientists visualize its direction and strength to reveal patterns we can’t see with our eyes. Discover the invisible at @ARTonTHEMART: Where Data Becomes Light. 📍 Chicago Riverwalk | Thu–Sun, 7:30–8 p.m., through Nov. 15

Miss Nordkorea wird übrigens vermutlich über die Beine entschieden

Classical mechanics tells you where an object is and how it moves. Quantum mechanics gives you something stranger: a state that predicts the probabilities of what you’ll measure. • Classical state: (x, p), position and momentum. • Quantum state: |ψ⟩, with probabilities such as |ψ(x)|². • An observable’s average is ⟨A⟩ = ⟨ψ|Â|ψ⟩. The real difference is not that quantum objects simply move unpredictably. It’s that a quantum state is not just a classical trajectory we haven’t measured yet.

Seamless shielding seems less shielding ! (Does this count as poetry?)

With the arrival of the ninth and final vacuum vessel sector, all the major components needed for the core of the ITER machine are on site. The ITER community gathered on 5 October to celebrate this milestone. Read more on ITER Newsline: iter.org/node/20687/remarkab…

A "Treble Clef" in Space: What It Really Is Beyond the plane of the Milky Way, astronomers have spotted a rare radio structure that resembles a musical symbol. Observations from the Chandra and eROSITA observatories have revealed that it consists of hot gas within a galaxy cluster—specifically, two clusters in the process of merging. Radio data from the LOFAR telescope helped fill in the details of this recognizable "pattern." The signal emerged in two acts: first, an outburst from a supermassive black hole ejected charged particles, which were then "energized" by shock waves generated by the collision. This event took place hundreds of millions of years ago, and the resemblance to the musical symbol is simply a case of pareidolia.

Mathematics can describe connections between things that seem completely unrelated, from networks of neurons to the geometry of black holes. Graph theory represents relationships as nodes and edges, while tensor networks help physicists describe complex quantum systems. In general relativity, wormholes appear as possible solutions to Einstein’s field equations, though traversable wormholes remain hypothetical. These ideas do not form one established theory of hyperspace. But they reveal something fascinating: mathematics can explore possibilities long before we know whether nature actually uses them.

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Planet of Christian: Sell them tires, find everyone in prison, free them AND sell them

Magnetic fields may let dead stars break the universe’s most famous mass limit. For almost a century, astronomers have treated the Chandrasekhar limit as an iron ceiling: roughly 1.4 times the mass of the Sun is the maximum a white dwarf can hold before gravity wins and the star is expected to explode as a Type Ia supernova. New evolutionary simulations now suggest that ceiling is not absolute. Strong internal magnetic fields can prop up some white dwarfs to far higher masses—one model reaches about 2.4 solar masses. From casual idea to full evolutionary track The idea began casually in 2011. Banibrata Mukhopadhyay of the Indian Institute of Science handed a summer student a simple problem: check whether a magnetic field could violate the Chandrasekhar limit. More than a decade later, that back-of-the-envelope question has become a detailed simulation of stellar evolution, led by Ph.D. student Zenia Zuraiq and published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. White dwarfs are the dense, Earth-sized cores left when stars like the Sun exhaust their fuel and shed their outer layers. Normally they are supported only by electron degeneracy pressure—a quantum effect that resists further compression. As mass approaches 1.4 solar masses, that support fails, density soars, carbon ignites, and a thermonuclear runaway can produce a Type Ia supernova. Because these explosions were long assumed to arise near the same mass limit, their peak brightness has been treated as roughly standardized, making them the “standard candles” that revealed the accelerating expansion of the universe. How the magnetic support grows The team modified the STARS stellar-evolution code to include magnetic fields and white-dwarf cooling, then followed stars from the main sequence all the way to the white-dwarf stage. They placed the resulting white dwarf in a binary where it could accrete mass from a companion. As the white dwarf gains mass it contracts and becomes denser. That compression amplifies the internal magnetic field. The stronger field supplies extra pressure that helps the star resist its own gravity, allowing it to support more mass than degeneracy pressure alone would permit. The mass–radius relation changes, and new, higher mass limits appear depending on the field’s strength and geometry. In one concrete run, an 8-solar-mass main-sequence star evolved into a 1.02-solar-mass carbon-oxygen white dwarf. Fed matter at a rate of \(10^{-9}\) solar masses per year, the magnetized version climbed to a limiting mass of about 2.4 solar masses. The identical non-magnetized model stopped at the classic 1.4 solar masses. In the magnetized case the central field strength rose to enormous values (tens of trillions of gauss), providing the extra support. Why it matters The same magnetic pressure that lets a white dwarf grow heavier can also make it larger than expected for a given mass, offering a natural explanation for some observed white dwarfs that look “puffy” relative to standard models. For cosmology the stakes are higher. If a fraction of Type Ia supernovae come from magnetized, super-Chandrasekhar progenitors, their luminosities may not follow the same calibration as ordinary ones. Understanding that diversity could refine how we use these explosions to map the expansion history of the universe. The work does not claim that 2.4-solar-mass white dwarfs have already been observed; it shows that ordinary stellar evolution plus strong internal magnetism can produce them under plausible conditions. What began as a casual question now demonstrates a concrete pathway past one of astrophysics’ most famous limits.

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