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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is the second in a series of three papers that charts the history of the Lenz-Ising model (commonly called just the Ising model in the physics literature) in considerable detail, from its ...

Figure 1: A two-dimensional representation of a ten-dimensional hypercube. A RIKEN researcher has shown that quantum Ising models lack local conserved quantities even ...

Creamy flow: a pint glass of Guinness showing the texture of bubbles. (Courtesy: University of Osaka) Pouring a proper pint of Guinness beer takes practice. It should be done in two stages to allow ...