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UCSB’s David Gross receives Special Breakthrough Award in Fundamental Physics – edhat

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Portrait of David Gross with the Breakthrough Prize text overlaid

Written by Sherry Leachman, UCSB The Breakthrough Prize Foundation today announced physicist David J. Gross of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, as the recipient of the 2026 Breakthrough Prize, which recognizes scientists whose discoveries significantly advance the growth of human knowledge. The Breakthrough Prize, commonly known as … Read more

Quantum “jamming” explores the truly fundamental principles of nature | Quanta Magazine

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Quantum “jamming” explores the truly fundamental principles of nature | Quanta Magazine

For the past few decades, researchers have known that quantum computers would eventually be able to crack the codes widely used to secure much of the digital world. To protect against this fate, they have spent years developing new code that would be safe from future safecracks using quantum computers. At the same time, they … Read more