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Quantum machines, new materials, and the universe at every scale.

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  1. 1. Bridging Theory and Observation: Synthetic Far-infrared Insights into Star Formation Efficiency

    The star formation efficiency per free-fall time ( ε rm ff ) quantifies how efficiently giant molecular clouds (GMCs) convert gas into stars and is often observed to be orders of magnitude lower than expected for…

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  2. 2. Toward Joint Optimization of Circuit Depth and Training Data Size in Adaptively Grown Quantum Classifiers

    Building a quantum model involves a tradeoff: how complex the circuit should be, and how much training data it needs.

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  3. 3. Sound waves come in quantum jumps

    First observation of fundamental quantization in mechanical vibrations could have applications in quantum error correction and protein diagnostics

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