One of the most remarkable concepts in modern physics is symmetry. The structure of our world just seems to be organised in different symmetric structures, which, luckily, can be described using mathematics. This approach has been very successful since the mathematical foundation was laid out by Emmy Noether (1882-1935) in 1918 in Noether’s Theorem. Noether’s […]
Month: April 2022
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Quantum Computers aren’t fast Computers
To understand why quantum computers aren’t just computers which run faster through some kind of „quantum magic“, we need to talk about their history and dip our toe in complexity classes. Don’t worry, it’s not that boring. Quantum mechanics is weird. In fact, it is not even really mechanics. It is a mathematical concept developed […]
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Fingers crossed, Christoph!
My former supervisor was never a man of many words. Even though he guided me through my first tentative one-and-a-half years of science, we would seldom talk more than was necessary. This was especially true for non-scientific topics. When he arrived at the office in the mornings, my presence was sometimes acknowledged with a barely […]