It's quantum, baby

Imagine the world as we understand it, is just the tip of the iceberg. Underneath that iceberg, at the atomic level and smaller, is the quantum world.

It’s a facet of physics Albert Einstein described as “spooky”. Now, as we’re entering the quantum age, with the University of Melbourne as a founding member of the IBM Q Network, Australia is getting quantum ready.

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A brief history of Quantum
The quantum revolution is coming, and it’s taken some big leaps of thinking from some of the biggest minds of the 20th century to get us to this point
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Grasping the ‘spooky’ in Quantum physics
Quantum computing could stream-line financial calculations, optimise the workings of complex systems like logistical networks and enhance artificial intelligence. So how hard can it be?
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Can you explain Quantum computing?
Quantum computing can be a challenging concept to get your head around - could you explain it?
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What has Quantum ever done for me?
Much of quantum computing exists primarily in theory. Quantum sensing, however, is already here
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So, you want to work in Quantum computing?
Like the evolution of classic computers in the 1940s, quantum computers are on the cusp of mainstream, and researchers, businesses and universities are already getting themselves quantum ready
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Quantum leap in computer simulation
Physicists have successfully run the largest quantum computing simulation to date, a key step in becoming quantum-ready
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The Quantum sensing revolution
Quantum sensors can detect tiny changes at the level below the atom, and it’s leading to entirely new questions about how our biological systems work
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Quantum 2.0: At the beating heart of biology
What is life? The question was posed by famous theoretical physicist Erwin Schrödinger, and now advances in quantum mechanics could help provide the answer
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Quantum boost for medical imaging
Physicists have demonstrated how, using light, a diamond layer and quantum mechanics, they could potentially “light up” our molecular insides for more powerful MRIs

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