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“Scientists Control 6,100 Quantum Particles Simultaneously”: Caltech Physicists Reveal Computer That Makes Silicon Chips Worthless  Rude Baguette Caltech Team Sets Record with 6,100-Qubit Array  Caltech Device with 6100 qubits is a step towards largest quantum computer yet  New Scientist Record 6,100 Qubits Form World’s Largest Quantum Array  IFLScience 6100 Qubit Tweezer Array Achieves High Coherence  Bioengineer.org Source link

The team used optical tweezers—highly focused laser beams—to trap thousands of individual cesium atoms in a grid. To build the array of atoms, the researchers split a laser beam into 12,000 tweezers, which together held 6,100 atoms in a vacuum chamber. “On the screen, we can actually see each qubit as a pinpoint of light,” Manetsch says. “It’s a striking …

Caltech scientists discovered that many mitochondrial proteins begin entering the organelle while they are still being made, overturning decades of assumptions. Credit: Shutterstock Researchers showed that many mitochondrial proteins enter the organelle during synthesis, guided by folding patterns and structural signals. This discovery revises decades of biochemical models. Mitochondria are organelles most commonly known as the “powerhouses of the cell” …

Caltech Mourns the Passing of President Emeritus and Nobel Laureate David Baltimore – www.caltech.edu skip to main content Source link

In 2003, the Nobel Prize winner David Baltimore, then president of Caltech, paused to reflect on his role as one of the world’s most decorated scientists. “People keep e-mailing me to ask, ‘What is the meaning of life?’” Baltimore told an interviewer, with amusement. “And they want me to e-mail them back quickly with an answer!” Baltimore was then 65, …

For decades there has been this tantalizing idea being pitched of pulling CO2 out of the air and using the carbon molecules for something more useful, like making plastics. Although this is a fairly simple process, it is also remarkably inefficient. Recently Caltech researchers have managed to boost the efficiency somewhat with a new two-stage process involving electrocatalysis and thermocatalysis …