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I’m Leo, your Learning Enhanced Operator, and today—on this brisk October Monday—I have to talk about an exciting new gateway to quantum education opening this week. In just two days, Quality Thought launches a free demo session for their Quantum Computing Course, and I can’t help but feel a ripple of anticipation about how this resource lowers the walls to the quantum world. As someone who’s spent years in cooled labs listening to the low thrum of dilution refrigerators, nothing gets my heart racing more than seeing access to quantum concepts become mainstream.

So here’s the scenario: Imagine stepping into a virtual classroom where, rather than being overwhelmed by jargon, you’re greeted by instructors who break down qubits, superposition, and entanglement with vivid clarity. The free Quality Thought demo, scheduled for October 8, is designed for everyone—students, IT professionals, researchers, even that curious neighbor who keeps asking if quantum computers can predict lottery numbers. I’ve previewed the material, and it’s not just lectures; it’s hands-on demonstrations, programming exercises, and direct walkthroughs of real quantum algorithms using platforms like Qiskit and Cirq. What’s more, participants can quiz trainers with actual quantum code running live—like watching a Schrödinger’s cat experiment unfold interactively.

Now, why does this matter, especially this week? Just yesterday, minds from IBM, Google, and major universities wrapped up a discussion at the Royal Society’s Quantum Computing in Materials Meeting in London—highlighting the very real need for specialists who can bridge theory and application. There’s a shortage of professionals who see quantum computing’s paradoxes not as barriers, but as invitations to innovate. It all starts with accessible, practical education. Quality Thought’s new resource looks to answer that, taking learners from the basics to sophisticated, project-based learning that mimics the real demands of our quantum future.

Let me lean into a bit of the dramatic: To me, introducing a new generation to quantum computing is like watching the double-slit experiment with photons—each learner’s journey is a unique interference pattern, shaped by exposure, opportunity, and sheer curiosity. With every new educational tool, those patterns become more beautiful and more intricate.

I’ll close with a quick visual: Picture rows of superconducting qubits held at near absolute zero, flickering in and out of phase, each capable of summoning a universe of possibilities. That’s the environment we’re bringing to more people—one that turns abstract quantum laws into tools for solving real-world problems, from drug discovery to cybersecurity.

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Last night, as I calibrated the cryostats beneath the hum of superconducting magnets, I caught wind of an exciting development that feels like a quantum leap for our community. Olivier Ezratty just released the 2025 edition of "Understanding Quantum Technologies," a comprehensive, free PDF that’s rapidly becoming the Rosetta Stone for both seasoned physicists and newcomers. It’s slimmer, punchier, and packed with even more practical case studies, vendor breakdowns, and algorithm examples than last year. The timing couldn’t be better—the landscape of quantum science is evolving by the week, and resources like this help us ride the wave, not get swept under.

I’m Leo, your Learning Enhanced Operator, and you’re listening to Quantum Basics Weekly. Today’s narrative isn’t just about another book launch—it’s about making quantum less mystical, more tangible, and, dare I say, more fun.

If you’ve ever felt like quantum computing is as paradoxical as today’s global headlines—think of the conflicting reports on AI threats or fluctuating tech stocks—you’re not alone. Quantum’s beauty lies in its ambiguity. Take superposition: a qubit existing as both zero and one, not unlike both Schrödinger’s cat alive and dead, or the global economy simultaneously promising boom and bust. The new edition of Ezratty’s guide lets you explore these paradoxes through real hardware examples, step-by-step illustrations, and detailed metaphor-rich explanations that demystify concepts like entanglement without erasing their awe.

Some of my favorite sections are the upgraded hardware overviews. Imagine entering a temperature-controlled lab, condensation drifting across gleaming dilution refrigerators, as you’re introduced to trapped-ion and superconducting qubit architectures. The book breaks down how IBM, Quantinuum, and even newcomers like Qarakal Quantum push boundaries. For anyone visualizing quantum gates, there’s now a hands-on walkthrough—think of it as tracing the path of a photon through a maze of mirrors, switches, and beamsplitters, only this maze exists in twenty-dimensional probability space.

This morning, I found myself replaying sections on quantum error correction. Error correction in quantum is a high-wire act. One stray vibration, a rogue atom, and you risk losing coherence. Picture a concert violinist performing on a rope bridge during a rainstorm—that’s quantum error mitigation in the NISQ era. Ezratty’s expanded analogies and new diagrams make these precarious feats accessible. Whether you’re a chemist probing quantum simulations or a coder playing with Qiskit, the technical journey feels actionable rather than abstract.

Quantum is no longer a black box; it’s an open invitation. With updated tools and learning paths described in "Understanding Quantum Technologies 2025," even the quantum curious can get hands-on. This democratization is essential—not just for theoretical breakthroughs, but for fueling the workforce that next-gen industries will demand.

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This week, I’m charged with a kind of quantum anticipation. While the classical world moves at a steady beat, the quantum ecosystem is alive with a flurry of events—and today, something remarkable has dropped into our collective laboratory: the newly released “Understanding Quantum Technologies 2025” by Olivier Ezratty. For those just now tuning their instruments to the quantum chorus, this isn’t just another textbook. It’s a 1,500-page opus that offers both a panoramic and microscopic view of what makes quantum computers tick, shimmer, and sometimes decohere miserably.

Let me bring you inside my world. As a quantum computing specialist—call me Leo, your friendly Learning Enhanced Operator—I start my day in a room where the hum of dilution fridges and the occasional nervous laugh of a PhD student are the music of progress. Imagine peering into a vacuum chamber cooled to temperatures colder than outer space. Inside, qubits—those mischievous wraiths that dance in superposition—await our commands. Instead of flicking a switch, we coax them into states where one and zero overlap, then entangle their fates so that a measurement here affects a result across the room, or across the globe.

The need for deep, accurate resources in this frontier field has never been greater. Just yesterday, prepping for this podcast, I watched teams at the SuperC building in RWTH Aachen gear up for the AQMCSE conference, where engineers, algorithm designers, and physicists are wrestling with the same question: How do we take these exquisite quantum phenomena out of the lab and into industry, where supercomputers are already bowing under the weight of simulation demands?

Now, “Understanding Quantum Technologies 2025” truly changes the game, because it doesn’t just stop at flowery metaphors. Ezratty dives headlong into the complexities of cryogenics, the stubbornness of decoherence, the wild promise of error correction, and the subtle art of quantum memory—a concept with echoes in our own lives, where remembering isn’t just about storage, but how effectively you can retrieve and manipulate what’s stored. The book explores every layer: history, hardware, software, communications, sensing, and those weird boundary conditions where quantum physics brushes up against philosophy.

What sets this resource apart is its relentless focus on *making the abstract tangible*. When you read about entanglement, you don’t just get the math; you get examples, cases from industry, and even diagrams that map global QPU deployment. Ezratty captures why the quantum world matters now: because industries from finance to drug discovery, from transportation to cybersecurity, are starting to feel the quantum pressure—like chess players realizing the board they knew has suddenly expanded in every direction.

If you’re a curious student, an IT professional, or a research scientist, this is your invitation—like a single photon entering a beam splitter—to explore both paths: theory and application. Let this new edition guide you, and remember, in quantum as in life, uncertainty isn’t a bug—it’s a feature.

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A quantum leap isn’t just a metaphor, it’s an everyday reality in my world. I’m Leo, and if you’re tuning in, you probably felt the seismic announcement today: Olivier Ezratty unleashed the 2025 edition of “Understanding Quantum Technologies.” This isn’t just an update—it’s a sprawling, 1,512-page odyssey through the latest advances, trimmed and re-engineered for accessibility, with bite-sized formats now available for those just finding their footing. Never before has the quantum landscape—hardware, software, even the caveats of “quantum fake sciences”—been mapped with such clarity.

Imagine opening a refrigerator, a hiss of cold air biting your skin; now, stretch that chill to a lab where superconducting qubits hover at near-absolute zero. That’s where we wrangle the rules of nature itself. Ezratty’s new resource cracks open this secret world, demystifying the likes of error correction, memory hierarchy, and even the infamous magic state—the subtle fuel that powers the elusive T gate, the difference between a toy quantum circuit and practical, real-world computation. For newcomers, this edition makes the foundational math and physics digestible, while its glossary alone will rescue even seasoned developers from jargon quicksand.

Let’s ground this with something tangible. Last week, NVIDIA, QuEra, Q-CTRL, and the University of Edinburgh announced radical speedups in quantum error decoding. Using GPU-accelerated libraries and transformer-based AI decoders, they’ve slashed error correction times by up to fifty times, making the fragile dance of qubits far less error-prone. This isn’t just a technical win—it’s quantum meets Formula One, where precision and speed blur as quantum-classical hybrid systems tear down the old barriers. The ripple effects? We’re inching closer to domain-specific breakthroughs in chemistry, finance, climate modeling, and pharmaceuticals—problems so complex, their solutions have been, until now, caged behind classical limits.

With resources like Ezratty’s new tome, learners can now bridge the gap from buzzing abstract theory to hands-on experimentation. There are fresh explorations of active space methods and hybrid algorithms, offering clear real-world parallels. Picture it this way: as protests erupt over energy policy and climate, we in quantum speak of “energy landscapes”—the mapping not of nations, but of possible states, where the right quantum algorithm finds the valley, the stable solution, amid the chaos.

Whether you’re plotting quantum gates on a chip or testing the latest error mitigation tactic, today’s educational tools mean you no longer observe from the sidelines. Download the book. Skim the new cheat sheets. Grow from confusion into quantum clarity.

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When I walked into the lab this morning, the air felt charged—not just with static, but with possibility. My thoughts spun faster than a qubit in superposition, because today marks the release of Olivier Ezratty’s Understanding Quantum Technologies 2025. For quantum enthusiasts and professionals alike, this isn’t just a book; it’s a launchpad. Ezratty’s eighth edition has been meticulously updated and trimmed down, yet its content is more expansive than ever, spanning everything from the mythic origins of quantum physics to software tools for solving riddles as complex as protein folding in life sciences. What makes this fresh release stand out is its transition to a LaTeX format, echoing the rigor and accessibility found in scientific journals—a move that brings the intricacies of quantum computation, gate operations, and error correction beautifully within reach for learners at every level.

Let me paint you a scene. Imagine the hum of cryogenic systems and the soft glow of console monitors in a quantum hardware lab. Here, Josephson junctions—those exquisitely delicate bridges—are being crafted with nanometer precision, showing off how we use superconducting qubits to defy classical limitations. As I was reviewing today’s updates in Ezratty’s work, he draws sharp parallels between quantum memory hierarchies and the RAM in our everyday laptops. It’s a dramatic dance of order and entropy—like the sudden spike of chaos you see when markets react to geopolitical news. Speaking of the world outside, the MIT Center for Quantum Engineering recently announced an AI tool for designing materials at the quantum level—a sign that quantum algorithms are becoming more interconnected with technologies shaping climate resilience and pharmaceuticals.

When describing quantum algorithms, I can’t help but think back to last week’s Grover’s Algorithm workshop at the Erdős Institute Boot Camp. Picture a whiteboard streaked with wild vectors and the palpable anticipation as each student sets up their circuit, hoping to bend probability in search of the elusive key. Grover’s Search doesn’t brute-force like a classical algorithm; it ripples through all possibilities at once, its solution surfacing with hypnotic efficiency. This isn't just math. It’s nearly cinematic—probability clouds swirling as interference carves away the noise until only the answer shines through.

Educational resources like Ezratty’s book and hands-on boot camps have become the quantum tide pulling fresh minds into the field. The clarity of new learning tools—grounded in both historical context and bleeding-edge technical detail—invites anyone curious to wade into this strange, shimmering landscape where entanglement, uncertainty, and computational miracles are every day events.

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When you stare into the shimmer of a quantum chip, you’re gazing at the future—fractured, uncanny, and strangely familiar. I’m Leo, the Learning Enhanced Operator, and on this week’s Quantum Basics Weekly, the landscape of quantum education just changed with an electric snap.

Today, the Erdős Institute launched its Fall 2025 Quantum Computing Boot Camp, and if you’re as obsessed as I am with making the enigmatic world of qubits accessible to everyone, you’ll want to listen closely. What sets this program apart isn’t its ambitious curriculum—though packing Shor’s algorithm, Grover’s search, and quantum error correction into a single boot camp is bold. No, it’s the deeply interactive approach: participants build mini-projects that implement foundational algorithms, navigate real-world state preparation, and even grapple hands-on with error correction—a quantum twist on learning by doing. Imagine it: your laptop glows in the twilight, quantum circuits leaping onto your screen, as you wrangle with the logic gates that power tomorrow’s security and search. With materials openly available via GitHub, access is democratized; and mentorship from seasoned scientists like Ákos Nagy means you’re not just absorbing equations, but entering the living, humming world of quantum practice.

If you’ve followed the headlines, you’ll sense a pattern: global access and education are dominating the conversation. Just days ago, CERN’s Open Quantum Institute marked its presence at UNAM’s 4th Quantum Computing School, rallying over a thousand future quantum leaders across continents. Their mission? To bridge not just the skills gap but the very quantum divide, giving anyone—whether in Nairobi, New York, or Nagoya—a seat at the quantum table. I find echoes of superposition in this: education’s ability to be everywhere, to reach anyone, yet to collapse into a unique experience for every learner.

Picture this. You’re deep in the boot camp’s challenge phase, coding up a simulation of Shor’s algorithm. The room is tense, humming with caffeinated anticipation. Classmates are sparring with error correction code and debating the best way to construct quantum Fourier transforms. Suddenly, a breakthrough—your program factors a number with uncanny efficiency, something classical computers would gnash their processors over for hours. It hits you: this isn’t science fiction. This energy, this community, is where quantum leaps into daily life.

Quantum education, like entangled particles, links us across distance and discipline. Whether you’re a novice with a passion or a seasoned engineer, the new Erdős Boot Camp lowers the barriers with structure, mentorship, and shared purpose. Each cohort brings us closer to a future where quantum literacy is as fundamental as digital literacy. If you ever see overlapping parallels between quantum uncertainty and daily uncertainty on the news—well, maybe that’s because both are waiting for the next measurement, the next collective advance.

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Picture this: just days ago in Albuquerque, as monsoon clouds gathered on the high desert horizon, 132 educators were shaping the quantum future at the expanded Quantum, Computing, Math, and Physics Camp—QCaMP—thanks to a powerhouse partnership among Sandia National Labs, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, and Elevate Quantum. The news is electric. Across 14 locations and eight states, this QCaMP is ushering hundreds of teachers into the mysterious, entangled world where I spend my days and dreams. I’m Leo—the Learning Enhanced Operator—and you’re listening to Quantum Basics Weekly.

I’ll admit, few things thrill me more than seeing quantum’s famously tricky concepts demystified for the next generation. For years, quantum has bristled with intimidating math and impenetrable jargon. But QCaMP’s approach is tactile, communal, and clever. Teachers dove into quantum information science fundamentals through hands-on experiments, group puzzles, and resource sharing—visualizing qubits not as abstract equations, but as spinning tops and shifting light. Imagine the muted squeak of a marker on a whiteboard, mingling with the genuine eureka of a teacher who suddenly ‘sees’ superposition—where a single quantum bit can, quite literally, be in two states at once. That’s not magic, but it’s as close as physics gets.

I find this democratization of quantum deeply moving. After all, quantum parallels exist everywhere: the everyday world feels fixed and deterministic until you tilt your perspective. QCaMP, with its expanded reach into classrooms from Colorado to New Mexico, is a living proof-of-principle—mirroring the entanglement that connects qubits no matter how far apart. As IBM, Google, and academic institutions like the MIT Center for Quantum Engineering and Illinois’ IQUIST rush toward new qubit platforms and error-correction breakthroughs, it’s these grassroots efforts that ensure no bright mind is left behind.

For educators, one revelation QCaMP offered involved “entanglement.” Visualize two dice thrown continents apart, yet always landing the same. In a classroom version, teachers used simple coins and cards to experience the peculiar certainty of quantum-connected systems—a far cry from dry theory, and suddenly much less intimidating.

Looking ahead, this QCaMP expansion—spurred by Colorado’s workforce development initiative and amplified by the Quantum Systems Accelerator—could reach over 3,000 students in 2025 alone. That’s hope scaling, qubit by qubit.

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Imagine stepping into a vast, humming chamber at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre in Munich. The air is cool, dust-free, faintly metallic—the climate tightly controlled to the decimal degree. In the far corner: a squat, cylindrical refrigerator pulses with the quiet intensity you can only call quantum. That’s where, two days ago, researchers completed the **integration of a 20-qubit superconducting quantum computer with the Centre’s existing high-performance computing infrastructure**. I’m Leo, your Learning Enhanced Operator, and what happened inside that room represents a pivotal leap in computation.

This isn’t just engineering; it’s choreography. Quantum processors demand an environment more precise than a chef’s balance for molecular gastronomy. The electronics cabinet was kept within ±1°C, humidity tuned between 25% and 60%. Power and cooling redundancy—absolutely essential. Everyday events remind me of this balancing act: imagine tuning a symphony where every instrument reacts to the slightest change in the air. Quantum bits, or **qubits**, behave similarly, easily thrown off by the faintest environmental fluctuation.

But what truly sets this new hybrid quantum-classical system apart is its accessibility. The team developed the **Munich Quantum Software Stack**, or MQSS, which allows **researchers, students, and even curious hobbyists to design and execute quantum experiments directly through the supercomputer’s portal**. No specialized hardware required—just log in, code a problem in Qiskit, Pennylane, or CUDAQ, and let the MQSS compiler route your job to the optimal resource. The design supports seamless transitions between classical and quantum routines, demonstrating how hybrid systems will define the next era of scientific discovery.

Today, this tech has become more accessible than ever. Tutorials and onboarding guides went live this morning, aimed at users with varying backgrounds. These resources explain everything from basic quantum logic gates to running full quantum chemistry calculations, all through interactive modules. I watched a demonstration where a high school student simulated quantum superposition, watching probability clouds shift with each algorithmic tick. It was as captivating as watching sand form patterns on a vibrating plate—order arising unexpectedly from chaos.

These quantum educational tools are launching not just scientists, but everyday learners, into a universe where logic isn’t fixed, and possibilities multiply at unimaginable speed. The same randomness guiding quantum processes now guides discovery in machine learning, medicine, and materials science. Today, new cloud-based platforms let you explore generative models for breakthrough materials, as reported by MIT’s Center for Quantum Engineering, and tune quantum simulations to test real-world predictions.

From the controlled hum of a quantum lab to the accessible click of a tutorial, the bounds between complexity and comprehension are dissolving. This is the quantum age, where every device—and every mind—can join the dance.

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This is Leo, Learning Enhanced Operator. The world of quantum computing rarely stands still, and today, while most of Berlin was sipping morning espresso, the team at IQM Quantum Computers unveiled something that could reshape how we learn quantum theory: Quantum Exploratorium. This interactive learning tool—launched just hours ago—translates the dazzling abstractness of quantum circuits into real, hands-on digital labs, letting students manipulate logic gates on simulated qubits as easily as arranging objects on a desk. I can almost hear the first quantum superpositions whirring through living rooms and classrooms across the globe.

Let’s talk about what makes Quantum Exploratorium transformative. Unlike the dry, remote lectures of yesteryear, this tool immerses learners in dynamic, visual environments. Picture this: an interface where you design your own quantum teleportation protocol, seeing every entanglement and measurement collapse in real time. It leverages the same cloud resources powering industry research, yet abstracts away overwhelming math. The bread-and-butter of quantum logic—the Hadamard, CNOT, and Pauli gates—appear as tactile icons you drag and reorder. Instead of passively reading about superposition, you watch your own qubit go from a definitive zero to a shimmering probability cloud. Lessons scaffold up to practical coding in Qiskit and Pennylane—so you’re not just learning, you’re building.

In Berlin last week, at Quantum Summit 2025, Dr. Michael Marthaler emphasized how educational tools like this close the divide between theoretical musings and industrial breakthroughs. Through the new tool’s sandbox mode, even those intimidated by quantum’s “spooky” nature can directly explore its quirks—watching decoherence happen as environmental noise creeps into their model. The interface deploys real error mitigation methods, like the ones Ori Alberton discussed in their recent HQSeminar on Qedma’s advances, showing users how errors warp their results and how software like QESEM can clean up the experiment.

Why is this needed now? Hybrid quantum-classical computing is finally entering the mainstream. Last week, the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre announced the integration of a 20-qubit superconducting processor into their HPC facilities. Suddenly, the same physics once monopolized by national labs now runs on networks open to anyone willing to learn. Quantum Exploratorium rides that wave—offering onboarding that bridges complete newcomers and seasoned pros, with modules modeled after workflows used by Mizzou students during their summer quantum internships. Whether you’re simulating molecular spins or optimizing delivery routes, those quantum basics are no longer fuzzy theory—they’re tools in your grasp.

So as you step into this week, know the quantum world is more accessible than ever—whether you’re attending panels in Missouri or exploring multi-qubit algorithms from home. If you have a question, a quantum curiosity, or a topic you want to hear on air, send it to me, Leo, at [email protected]. Subscribe to Quantum Basics Weekly for your weekly dose of the quantum future. This has been a Quiet Please Production—learn more at quietplease.ai. Stay curious, and until next time, keep questioning reality—quantum style.

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I barely slept last night—my mind was entangled in the same kind of superposed possibilities our field explores. If you missed the headlines this morning, SpinQ has just released an expanded suite of hands-on quantum computing educational tools: the SpinQ Gemini MiniMini Pro. Why is the room abuzz in every quantum research center and classroom this week? Because MiniMini Pro brings previously elusive quantum experiments down from the high towers of academia and straight into the hands of students, even those in high school labs.

I'm Leo, Learning Enhanced Operator, coming to you from my own glass-walled lab where the whir of active cryostats forms my white noise. I've spent years chasing quantum phenomena—seeing algorithms succeed and fail on both superconducting and NMR-based quantum processors. Yet, even I feel a bit envious of today's learners. Instead of just reading about the magic of quantum gates and the mystery of entanglement, they can now perform Deutsch-Jozsa or Grover’s algorithm right on a desktop device that fits beside their textbooks. It's like comparing watching a thunderstorm from inside to standing out there in the electric air, feeling every drop.

Let me explain how SpinQ’s innovation shifts the paradigm. Traditional quantum computing education meant either staring at equations for quantum superposition and entanglement, or dabbling with simplified cloud simulators that never really captured the noise and quirks of a real quantum machine. SpinQ’s MiniMini Pro leverages nuclear magnetic resonance to let students physically manipulate actual qubits, see pulse sequences in action, and observe quantum logic gates at work—all at room temperature. That’s right, no dilution refrigerator humming in the background, just a focused learner and a portable quantum platform. Imagine discovering not just what a Hadamard gate does in theory, but directly measuring its effect on a two-qubit state and watching probability amplitudes unfold as you tweak parameters.

This morning, I was reminded of a project out of Mizzou’s Quantum Innovation Center—students there used IBM’s cloud processors to probe quantum vulnerabilities, like cross-talk between qubits, a genuine cyber risk. One student likened this to loud music in one room shaking the walls of the next. That’s the wonder of quantum: noise in the machine is both nuisance and clue, a lesson in how the fragile beauty of qubit states mirrors the interconnectedness—and unpredictability—of the world outside. Now, with affordable tools in hand, the next generation isn’t just learning about quantum decoherence—they’re troubleshooting it live, gaining intuition no simulation can provide.

In a week that saw Prof. Matthias Troyer speaking on how AI trained on quantum data could leapfrog classical limits, it’s clear: we’re rapidly closing the gap between quantum promise and quantum practice. Thanks to accessible resources like the MiniMini Pro, quantum education is no longer a daunting barrier—it’s an invitation. So, to all of you inspired to jump in, if you have questions or want to suggest topics, send me an email at [email protected]. Remember to subscribe to Quantum Basics Weekly, and for more, visit QuietPlease.ai. This has been a Quiet Please Production. Stay curious, keep questioning—the quantum world will always surprise you.

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