This is the last in a series of three papers on the history of the Lenz-Ising model from 1920 to the early 1970s. In the first paper, I studied the invention of the model in the 1920s, while in the ...

The central selling point of qubit-based quantum processors is that they can supposedly solve certain types of tasks much faster than a classical computer. This comes however with the major ...

Figure 1: A two-dimensional representation of a ten-dimensional hypercube. A RIKEN researcher has shown that quantum Ising models lack local conserved quantities even ...

Right now, quantum computers are small and error-prone compared to where they’ll likely be in a few years. Even within those limitations, however, there have been regular claims that the hardware can ...

Spin cycle: Peter McMahon (left) and Alireza Marandi with the Stanford Ising machine. (Courtesy: L A Cicero) Two independent teams of physicists in the US and Japan have each built versions of a new ...

Creamy flow: a pint glass of Guinness showing the texture of bubbles. (Courtesy: University of Osaka) Pouring a proper pint of Guinness beer takes practice. It should be done in two stages to allow ...

By partnering with artificial intelligence (AI), a researcher at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory has solved a long-standing physics problem and uncovered the ...

Biologists have the fruit fly. Botanists have the thale cress. Neurologists have the roundworm. These are model organisms: plants and animals that scientists in each of these fields study to make ...