Lucas C. Céleri

A quantum system can possess a property called magic. It's not about tricks: it's a measure of how hard it is to reproduce its behavior on a classical computer. Ordinary states, known as stabilizer states, are easy for a computer to handle. But states with magic leave it stumped.

The quantum world loves balance. When a massive particle is forced to split, to go down two paths at once, something must give way in response. That "something" turns out to be the very apparatus that split the particle.