Talking About a Revolution: From Quantum Mechanics to Quantum Technologies
Stephan Ritter · PhotonicsViews · 2021
Abstract Quantum physics is often considered weird, counterintuitive, and irrelevant at macroscopic scales – something for physicists and other nerds. And yet, more and more people talk about it publicly, including politicians like Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and German chancellor Angela Merkel. What has happened? Why is a theory that is about a century old suddenly in vogue when it is combined with the word technology? And why are people talking about a second quantum revolution?