Touch the back of a laptop, and the warmth you feel is energy that has already been paid for, processed by chips, and then dissipated as heat. The work by Toshimasa Fujisawa and colleagues, reported in Communications Physics as “Efficient heat-energy conversion from a non-thermal Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid” and summarized in the TechXplore piece “A new approach to energy harvesting opened up by the quantum world,” asks a simple but radical question: what if that waste heat could be turned back i
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The quantum technology landscape is rapidly evolving from speculative science to a tangible economic powerhouse, with experts forecasting a market worth up to $97 billion by 2035. According to a major McKinsey report, quantum computing, communication, and sensing could generate as much as $97 billion in global revenue within a decade, making 2025 a pivotal year in the transition from concept to deployment. McKinsey's analysis highlights a decisive shift in 2024, in which the focus shifted from
