Atomically Thin Materials Significantly Shrink Qubits

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Quantum computing is a devilishly complex technology, with many technical hurdles impacting its development. Of these challenges two critical issues stand out: miniaturization and qubit quality. IBM has adopted the superconducting qubit road map of reaching a 1,121-qubit processor by 2023, leading to the expectation that 1,000 qubits with today’s […]

Review: ‘Home/Land,’ by Rebecca Mead

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Mead’s latest is a beautifully written memoir about a writer’s return to her homeland. “Home/Land: A Memoir of Departure and Return” by Rebecca Mead; Alfred A. Knopf (240 pages, $27) ——— Rebecca Mead’s 2014 book “My Life in Middlemarch” was an original and insightful hybrid work. Blending literary biography, textual […]