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Ignacio Cirac

Director of the Theory Division of the Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching (Germany)

It is a very interesting article that shows how prototype quantum computers that already exist or will be built in the near future can become a key tool to address fundamental questions. The experiment presented in the article is still too basic to be able to answer these questions. For example, the prototype it uses is no more powerful than the supercomputers we have at our disposal. Still, it is an important step in that direction.  

Another relevant issue that is important to note is that the experiment does not create a gravitational wormhole, but it does a simulation. On the other hand, there is a huge interest in the scientific community in this kind of simulations because they can shed light on how black holes behave, especially when we study them from the perspective of quantum physics. 

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