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 ⚛️ Remembering Chien-Shiung Wu’s crucial contributions to nuclear physics and quantum theory, which forever altered our understanding of particle physics through the experimental confirmation of parity violation in weak interactions. Plus, a recent report from the National Science Board has dim implications for the future of STEM in the US (including the future of quantum computing), the Quantum Gen AI Lecture Series from qAIntum.ai is a must-see and a deeper look at how Infleqtion’s work with BECs is changing aircraft navigation.

🗓️ THIS WEEK

Monday, July 29th | Advancing Geodesy and Navigation with Quantum Sensors

Sunday, August 4th | QTM-X Quantum Education Series 8 of 10

📰 WEEKEND BYTES

Fun news & community contributions.

📊 In less fun news, the National Science Board recently released a report on the state of the U.S. science and engineering landscape, and the results were less than astounding: A recently released infographic from the National Science Board calls attention to three troubling trends in U.S. STEM around funding disparities, output of intellectual property, and declining math proficiency. While business funding heavily dominates R&D, it primarily focuses on experimental development with near-term commercial benefits, which uncovers a critical gap that federal funding must fill. The People's Republic of China is identified as both a necessary collaborator and fierce competitor, particularly when it comes to patents related to AI, semiconductors, quantum computing, and biotechnologies. The PRC also surpasses the U.S. in awarding more doctoral awards, further stressing existing U.S. STEM workforce challenges, and declining math abilities worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic. To address these issues, a new version of the National Defense Education Act has been proposed to rebuild STEM education in the hopes of building a stable future workforce.

Sophie Choe is the Founder and CEO of qAIntum.ai, a quantum LLM startup specializing in Photonic Analog Quantum Computing. Check out the below installment in the Quantum Gen AI Lecture Series, covering quantum internet infrastructure.

In an episode of "One Amazing Thing About..." hosted by Greg Kihlström, Erik Garcell, Head of Technical Marketing at Classiq, highlights how their platform is working towards providing the full potential of quantum computing for their users. Classiq's software assists in the design, optimization, execution, and analysis of quantum algorithms.

✈️ The first successful in-flight stable Bose-Einstein Condensate by Infleqtion opens the door to GPS alternatives: Earlier this year, BAE Systems’ quantum team participated in the world’s first flight carrying a stable Bose-Einstein Condensate, a state of matter known for its extreme fragility and quantum properties. This trial was carried out with the goal of demonstrating that quantum navigation equipment could provide unjammable navigation by through the unique properties of BECs. Future steps include refining the navigation function to use BECs as a standard tool in aircraft navigation systems. Check out the following video to learn more: 👇️ 

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Chien-Shiung Wu was a Chinese-American experimental physicist who made significant contributions to the field of nuclear physics. She is best known for her work on the Manhattan Project and for the Wu experiment, which provided critical proof for the theory of parity violation in weak nuclear interactions. Her experiments and research have had lasting impacts on various fields, including quantum mechanics.

RECOMMENDED PUBLICATIONS:

Experimental Test of Parity Conservation in Beta Decay

An experiment demonstrating that parity is not conserved in weak nuclear interactions contradicted the previously held law of conservation of parity, which had profound implications for quantum mechanics and particle physics in influencing the understanding of quantum symmetries.

The Universal Fermi Interaction

The Fermi interaction is explored in the context of nuclear beta decay, laying the groundwork for the theoretical framework that would be tested by Wu's later experimental work.

The Angular Correlation of Scattered Annihilation Radiation

The angular correlation of scattered annihilation radiation is found to provide important insights into the properties of positron-electron annihilation and contributes to the understanding of fundamental quantum interactions.

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