Tristan Villain

In the quantum world, there are rules that seem to be broken. One of them is the conservation law: if in classical physics symmetry guarantees the conservation of charge, then in the quantum description this guarantee can disappear. This phenomenon is called a quantum anomaly.

A courtroom interpreter must relay every word without being distracted by noise in the room. In the quantum world, a superconducting resonator plays that role, losing photons on schedule without straying into spurious effects.