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New comment by chrysander in "Caltech quantum startup Oratomic launches with achieving scaling breakthrough"

chrysander — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 08:36:04 +0000

Their new paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.28627 reduces the number of required qubits to break various cryptography algorithms by more than an order of magnitude.

Caltech quantum startup Oratomic launches with achieving scaling breakthrough

chrysander — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 08:36:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.oratomic.com/news/launch-announcement

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47584346

Points: 2

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New comment by chrysander in "Nobel Prize in Physics 2025"

chrysander — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 17:04:36 +0000

And Girvin as the third one of their Yale effort!

New comment by chrysander in "Nobel Prize in Physics 2025"

chrysander — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 11:41:32 +0000

More than deserved!

Both Devoret and Martinis are also highly involved in pushing quantum engineering to new levels - Devoret at Google Quantum AI and Martinis (formerly at Google) with his company, Qolab.

Coincidentally, I have a close friend doing his PhD with Devoret and know someone working with Martinis. I am curious to see if they will ever see their respective supervisors again, given that the Nobel Prize attention will likely garner them countless invitations for talks and keynotes...

New comment by chrysander in "The war against the quite good"

chrysander — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 08:29:04 +0000

https://archive.ph/zWbyn

The war against the quite good

chrysander — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 08:28:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/0fc44c6b-277c-4472-a235-65f59a9195f3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45479925

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by chrysander in "Electron band structure in germanium, my ass"

chrysander — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 15:08:45 +0000

Very much my undergrad lab education experience...

I currently write my master's thesis in experimental quantum computing - the platform is similar to what Google published in December, just with less qubits. A lot of it just comes down to how much money the lab can spend to get the best equipment and how good your fabrication is.

You can have the best minds in experimental physics, but without the right equipment the grad students are just busy trying to make things work somehow and waste months if not years away.

New comment by chrysander in "Show HN: Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landed"

chrysander — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 01:42:47 +0000

I was about to suggest this as well - great game! Maybe you want to add https://games.oec.world/en/tradle/ to the routine