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Quantum brief week 14, 2026
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Episode notes
- Breakthrough in Qubit Efficiency: Research from Caltech and Oratomic has demonstrated a dramatic reduction in the physical-to-logical qubit ratio from 1,000:1 to 5:1. By using reconfigurable neutral-atom arrays moved by optical tweezers, the hardware requirement for Shor’s algorithm has potentially collapsed to just 10,000 qubits.
- Revised Cryptographic Threats: Google Quantum AI released a whitepaper showing that breaking Bitcoin’s ECDSA encryption may require only 500,000 physical qubits—a twenty-fold decrease from previous estimates. This highlights a "nine-minute attack" window where transactions could be hijacked before confirmation.
- Institutional Capital and Statecraft: The industry is shifting from pure research to infrastructure build- ...
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