Quantum Frontiers

First, why a video?

It’s been a long summer here at Caltech, in part due to a super El Niño event which hit late but hard, with temperatures creeping up to the 100s in the first week of October.

The National Egg Coordination Committee created one of India’s longest-running ad campaigns.

Prende y se apaga sola, sale después de hora.

Rudy Marcus was 91 years old when I took a course from him.

The University of Cambridge is a special place.

Rethinking the electric field Have you ever wondered what an electric field actually is?

In the beginning there was a question.

Freshman year of college, I took a writing seminar from German-literature professor Ellis Shookman.

By day, I work as an experimentalist on laser-cooling molecules1, but I’ve never fully surrendered my theoretical-physics license.

In my closet, in a basket labeled “Random stuff,” sits a bag of quarters.

Mark Wise, the John A.

A scientist in Florence can’t avoid bumping into colleagues.

It’s happening.

When I was pursuing a PhD at Caltech, so was my friend Jeremy.

As experimental capabilities advance rapidly, the quantum computing community faces a critical elephant in the room: What will these quantum machines eventually be useful for?