Breakthrough boosts quantum AI

Jun 26, 2023 (Nanowerk News) A groundbreaking theoretical proof shows that a technique called overparametrization enhances performance in quantum machine learning for applications that stymie classical computers. “We believe our results will be useful in using machine learning to learn the properties of quantum data, such as classifying different phases...

Webb makes first detection of crucial carbon molecule

Jun 26, 2023 (Nanowerk News) A team of international scientists has used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to detect a new carbon compound in space for the first time. Known as methyl cation (pronounced cat-eye-on) (CH3+), the molecule is important because it aids the formation of more complex carbon-based molecules....

Thin metasurfaces instead of thick lenses

Jun 26, 2023 (Nanowerk News) "After 500 years of lenses and mirrors, it is time to think ahead," explains Dr. Falk Eilenberger, head of the Department of Micro- and Nanostructured Optics at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF. So-called metasurfaces can be an alternative here. These...

Europe launches massive AI test facilities

Jun 26, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Artificial intelligence has entered the public sphere. The term AI is everywhere, and millions of Europeans use the technology every day, often without even realising it. But who will oversee these new technologies? And how do we know if the AI we are using works...