The metaphorical cat that represents quantum weirdness has escaped its field
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Several weeks in the past, I used to be huddled over a laptop computer with two researchers from IBM to study a Schrödinger’s cat that they had made in considered one of their quantum computer systems. It was an enormous one – sufficiently big, I realized, to be thought of proof that their laptop was value taking note of.
Now, this wasn’t an actual cat with paws and whiskers, in fact, however a metaphorical one made from tiny superconducting circuits known as…