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High-dimensional quantum code cracker: ‘I can observe all these fundamental properties of quantum mechanics with simple lasers,’ says Dr Isaac Nape in his Wits lab. (Ihsaan Haffejee)
ISAAC NAPE

Savvy scientist’s quantum leap

Dr Isaac Nape from Wits University is getting accolades from scientists in the field of quantum optics for his team’s groundbreaking technique

  • Adrian Ephraim
7 min read
Instead of harnessing the bizarre laws of the quantum world to hold a hapless bacterium in limbo
IAN SAMPLE

Microbe to be in two places at once

Physicists have drawn up plans to put a living organism in two places at once in a radical demonstration of quantum theory.

  • Ian Sample
2 min read