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How European vineyards dodged a devastating American disease
Oct. 15, 2024
Study
reveals how Europe escaped Pierce's disease and warns of increasing risk due to
climate change
A team of researchers, including
researchers from IFISC (UIB-CSIC), has revealed the reasons why European
vineyards escaped the devastating Pierce's disease, caused ...
Breaking the Barrier: Engineered Dissipation to Overcome Barren Plateaus in Quantum Algorithms
Oct. 7, 2024
A team of researchers from the Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems (IFISC) has unveiled a groundbreaking approach to tackle one of the most significant challenges in quantum computing: barren plateaus. This phenomenon severely restricts the performance of variational ...
Understanding the energy costs of computing
May 15, 2024
Researchers from the Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems (IFISC) UIB-CSIC (Mallorca, Spain), the University of Colorado, the Santa Fe Institute, and the The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), have made advancements that refine our fundamental ...
The language puzzle: how Physics helps unlock linguistic mysteries
June 22, 2023
The field of language dynamics, which
applies physics to linguistics, is a relatively new interdisciplinary area of
research. Physicists have successfully used their methods to study various
aspects of language. By analyzing linguistic data and using mathematical
models, physicists have ...
The eminent scientist Margarita del Val will give a lecture at UIB on interdisciplinary research in epidemics
June 13, 2023
The CSIC Representation in the Balearic
Islands, the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB) and the Institute of
Cross-disciplinary Physics in Complex Systems (IFISC, UIB-CSIC) are organizing
the lecture "Investigación
interdisciplinar en epidemias desde la Plataforma de Salud Global del ...
IFISC (UIB-CSIC) researchers present a new quantum method of pattern classification
June 1, 2023
Researchers at IFISC (UIB-CSIC) have proposed
a novel method for pattern classification using a single nonlinear quantum
oscillator instead of a lattice of spins (bits). The study, published in the
prestigious journal Physical Review Letters, focuses on the implementation of ...
"Women in Quantum" meeting unites senior physicists to address gender equity
May 9, 2023
The "Women in Quantum" workshop, held from May 1 to 4 in Illetes
(Mallorca) has joined women researchers coming from all Europe and Japan and working
in quantum physics topics ranging from quantum information, to foundations, and
atomic, molecular, and ...
Simulation of collective effects between the qubits of a quantum computer
March 10, 2023
An international team, involving researchers from IFISC (UIB-CSIC) in collaboration with the University of Helsinki, Aalto University and the startup Algorithmiq (Finland), has successfully simulated the collective and dissipative dynamics of two qubits in a real quantum computer. These results ...
11F: International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2023
Feb. 3, 2023
In 2015, the United Nations General Assembly
decided to proclaim 11 February as the International Day of Women and Girls in
Science with the aim of achieving full and equal access to science for girls
and women.
This year IFISC ...
Modeling the spread of Pierce's disease of grapevines
Jan. 30, 2023
Wine production is being
decimated in some places by Pierce's disease, caused by the
bacterium Xylella fastidiosa.
Researchers propose a model
that takes into account the effect of ambient temperature to see how
climate change will affect its spread ...