Alexander N. Korotkov

Reliable quantum computing requires rare states that are hard to obtain without defects. Scientists replaced laborious purification with a cultivation method—like growing special plants. On a real processor, accuracy reached 99.99% with an 8% yield. This paves the way to practical quantum computers.

A quantum experiment showed: strong disorder doesn't destroy flow; it transforms it into the perfect kind—frictionless. Particles simulated on a processor, under chaotic conditions, suddenly flowed like a single fluid.