the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $71 million in funding for 25 projects in high energy physics that will use the emerging technologies of quantum information science to answer fundamental questions about the universe.

Using a novel type of quantum computer, Martin Ringbauer’s experimental team at the University of Innsbruck, and the theory group led by Christine Muschik at IQC at the University of Waterloo, Canada report in a publication in the journal Nature Physics how they have successfully simulated a complete quantum field theory in more than one spatial dimension.

Black holes (BHs) are located at the intersection of gravity and quantum mechanics, making them one of the most important areas of study of modern high-energy physics. This 12-month project, supported by The Royal Society, aims to explore the quantum properties of BHs and their microscopic details, contributing to a deeper understanding of these objects.

Professor Stephen Blundell from the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford has been awarded the 2024 Institute of Physics Lawrence Bragg Medal and Prize. The IOP gold medal recognises Professor Blundell’s contributions to physics scholarship and education through the publication of widely-used and influential physics textbooks.

Now, Lingxiao Wang of the RIKEN Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences Program (iTHEMS) and colleagues in the United Kingdom and Germany have shown that one such approach, known as stochastic quantization, corresponds to another statistical technique used in deep learning called generative diffusion.