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Artificial intelligence has made simulation theory easier to imagine. A computer can now produce a recognizable face that never existed, imitate a human voice, construct a navigable environment, and ...

Could humanity be living inside a computer-generated reality without ever knowing it? This video explores philosopher Nick ...

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Physicists in the Department of Physics, University of Oxford, have used a hybrid quantum computer, formed by qubits and quantum oscillators, to ...

Using a hybrid qubit–oscillator trapped-ion processor, physicists have simulated a Z2 lattice gauge theory and directly ...

The simulation of strongly interacting many-body systems is a key objective of quantum physics research, as it can help to test the predictions of physics theories and yield new valuable insight.