The numbers are in and now it’s official: Finance and tech bros drive fleece vest sales. Moosejaw CEO says purchases are up 700 percent in 3 years

t’s become ubiquitous in Palo Alto and Wall Street, parodied on Instagram and memorialized by the wardrobe department on Showtime’s fictional hedgefund drama “Billions” and HBO’s “Silicon Valley.” The anecdotal evidence was everywhere, but the numbers are in and now it’s official. Sales of the office sweater vest — the casual, fleece variety — are […]

D-Wave demonstrates first large-scale quantum simulation of topological state of matter

D-Wave Systems today published a milestone study demonstrating a topological phase transition using its 2048-qubit annealing quantum computer. This complex quantum simulation of materials is a major step toward reducing the need for time-consuming and expensive physical research and development. The paper, entitled “Observation of topological phenomena in a programmable lattice of 1,800 qubits”, was […]

Quantum simulation reveals mobility edge in a low-dimensional disordered landscape

A recent flood of research scholarship on electronic transport in low-dimensional (2-D or 1D) materials like graphene or carbon nanotubes reflects the tremendous potential of these materials to unveil a deeper understanding of the laws that govern the sometimes surprising emergent behavior of electrons. Scientists have probed novel materials like these to uncover the physics […]