The mathematics of quantum theory associates each quantum object with a wavefunction that appears in the Schrödinger equation and gives the probability of finding it in any given state.
We are delighted to announce the winners in this edition of the Quantum Shorts flash fiction competition. Five stories claim prizes across the competition’s Open and Youth categories.
“The wildly divergent approaches to the quantum world and the constraint were inspiring,” says judge Colin Sullivan from Nature. Go here to find the winning stories, see what else the judges had to say about them and to read interviews with the authors.
Congratulations to the winners – and to all the writers who entered and made our decisions so difficult! Quantum shorts will be back again later this year with a call for short films.
Vlatko is a Principal Investigator at the Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore and Professor in Quantum Information at the University of Oxford, UK. His research ranges from asking fundamental questions about the nature of quantum physics to exploring applications for quantum effects in technology. Vlatko is the author of popular science books Decoding Reality: The Universe as Quantum Information and the forthcoming From Micro to Macro: Adventures of a Wandering Physicist.