quantum
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The risk exists because “Xanadu and most quantum computing peers have nominal near-term revenue, which makes benchmarking valuation difficult.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
The analyst says that near-term stock upside will be driven by technical milestones, government funding, and strategic partnerships rather than immediate sales until its quantum data center goes online in 2029/2030.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
The circuit performs a quantum Fourier transformation, a mathematical operation that can reorganize quantum information in a way that reveals otherwise difficult to detect patterns.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026
Fidelity indicates how reliably a quantum system performs the intended task.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026
We were about to enter the quantum age, and the first person to push on the door was the so-far unfortunate Max Planck.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
At wide-open throttle, the raunchiness doesn’t come in wild quanta but in one smoothly linear, incredibly steep exponential function, with no interval for tactility and feedback.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
This process allows the penetration and pinning of magnetic flux quanta, which in turn creates a magnetic stray field.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 17, 2024
The analysis confirmed that both the input and output of the experiment were single quanta of energy.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 19, 2023
Quantum mechanics describes how, in the subatomic realm, everything is broken up in discrete chunks, or quanta, such as the individual particles of light called photons.
From New York Times ● May 8, 2023
“He responded, rather vaguely, with some small notions about highspeed rotating mirrors, chopping the tails off quanta and other single-shot ideas,” Tuve would recall.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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