Ernst Ising's analysis of the one-dimensional variant of his eponymous model (Z. Phys 31, 253–258; 1925) is an unusual paper in the history of early twentieth-century physics. Its central result — ...

The processing power of standard computers is expected to reach its maximum in the next 10 to 25 years. But even at this maximum power, computers in their current form won't be able to handle certain ...

Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have developed a novel Ising machine that utilizes surface acoustic waves as an ...

This is the last in a series of three papers on the history of the Lenz-Ising model from 1920 to the early 1970s. In the first paper, I studied the invention of the model in the 1920s, while in the ...

Spin cycle: Peter McMahon (left) and Alireza Marandi with the Stanford Ising machine. (Courtesy: L A Cicero) Two independent teams of physicists in the US and Japan have each built versions of a new ...

The central selling point of qubit-based quantum processors is that they can supposedly solve certain types of tasks much faster than a classical computer. This comes however with the major ...

Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. Theoretical physicists develop mathematical models to describe material systems, which they can then use to make predictions about how ...

"The sky's the limit. Once they're so well trained, you know, at such a young age, they are such good sight readers. They're really hungry for increased challenge in music. My upper level class it's ...