AnalysisOct 28

Classical Preprocessing, Not the Quantum Solver, Carries the Measured Gain in Drone-Delivery QUBO

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A preprint deposited on the arXiv server proposes a hybrid quantum-classical method for drone-delivery planning. The result most worth the attention of engineers is that the practical gain sits on the...

ExplainerOct 27

The exact boundary of magic-state distillation

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A new result on the mathematical frontier of quantum computation settles a question that has hung over the field since the first fault-tolerant schemes were proposed. Magic-state factories, the appara...

FeatureOct 27

High Energy Composite Fermions Decay Into Quasiparticles, Quasiholes and Electrons, Study Shows

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A communication has reached the arXiv, and the archives of physics, under the title “Spontaneous Decay of High Energy Composite Fermions.” The familiar account of the fractional quantum Hall fluid hol...

AdvertisementOct 27

THE UNRIVALLED CEYLONESE CRYPTOGRAPHINE: A CERTAIN DEFENCE Against the Quantum Peril

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Cunning thieves, armed with quantum engines, may read your every bargain as a scholar reads his book. Thereupon the fiscal humours grow fretful, the cipher-nerves twitch, and the qubit-sinews relax wi...

AdvertisementOct 26

THE RESOLUTE ZANZIBAR CATALYPTINE: A Speedy Reckoning Against the Sluggish Humours of the Half-Filled Mind

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The memory, when full, is not a burden but a battery. The ZANZIBAR CATALYPTINE seizes upon the crowded mind and employs its very fullness as a motive engine, sorting, transforming, and multiplying wit...

AnalysisOct 26

RAMP: Quantum-Safe Key Distribution as a Service with a Dual-Domain Security Boundary

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A preprint describes a framework, named RAMP, for providing quantum key distribution as a service to users who do not operate the specialised hardware on which that distribution ordinarily depends. Qu...

AnalysisOct 25

Electrically Pumped Quadratic-Soliton Mode-Locked Laser Demonstrated on a Lithium Niobate Nanophotonic Chip

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At the hardware layer beneath the cryptographic migration, a component long awaited has arrived in laboratory form. Researchers report an electrically pumped, mode-locked laser built on a lithium niob...

SocietyOct 25

THE SOCIETY PAGE: A Fourfold Accord at the Porphyry Saloon

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An old name has consented to lend its weight to a young house. Lord Shor of the Morss Chair was received at the Porphyry Saloon above the Charles, with Professor Paler of Helsingfors, Professor Devitt...

AnalysisOct 25

PQ-Vault: A Provably Quantum-Safe Custody System for Unmodified Ethereum

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A new paper in the quantum cryptography literature sets a boundary stone in the long migration from classical to post-quantum custody. Its authors prove that once an Ethereum account's public key has ...

BriefOct 24

Starknet Vote Authorizes Post-Quantum Study, Not Departure

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Token holders of Starknet have voted by 93.52 per cent of voting power to authorize research into whether the network should become an independent, quantum-resistant layer-1 blockchain rather than con...

AnalysisOct 24

HDKEM: A Deniable Hybrid Key Exchange Proposal With Reference Timings

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A new paper has been laid before the cryptographic public, and it is, for the moment, only that. The document, deposited on the arXiv repository, describes HDKEM, a hybrid key exchange protocol which ...

AdvertisementOct 24

THE RESOLUTE TURKISH CEREBRO-CIPHERINE: A Restoration of Failing Signatory Organs Against the Automatic Reasoner

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The cipher-trials report that an automatic reasoner, for a charge of one hundred thousand sovereigns, destroyed a vaunted candidate scheme in sixty hours; thereupon its authors withdrew it next day. D...

AdvertisementOct 23

THE INDOMITABLE CAIRO QUANTUM-CORDIAL: A Fortification Against the Premature Unsealing of Private Ciphers

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To every merchant whose private signet may lie open to the coming quantick engine, the Cairo Quantum-Cordial offers immediate peace. A spoonful at dusk invigorates the depleted cipher-ganglions and re...