(Fig.1) ↓ Fake "future" target = quantum ? ;
Quantum mechanics invented 100 years ago is unrealistic and useless, relying on fictitious quasiparticles to explain all physical phenomena.
Quasiparticle is unreal, having fake (= effective ) mass and charge, which are freely-adjustable to deal with different phenomena, so meaningless in predicting new reactions.
For useless quantum physics to get research funds, physicists needed to create fake target = fictional quantum computer which is supposed to exploit fantasy parallel worlds for faster (← ? ) parallel computing ? ← still Not reality.
To hide the inconvenient fact that the current quantum physics is useless with No progress, academia spreads fake news to deceive people into falsely believing their researches are worth taxpayers' money.
If you carefully read each quantum technology news, you will notice they make No progress, just using misleading phrases to get your hopes up.
This week solid-physics is still full of unreal quasi-particles such as phonon ( this, this, this ), exciton ( this, this ), polaron ( this ), plasmon ( this, this ), magnon ( this ).
Other unreal quasiparticles are skyrmion ( this ), Bogoliubov ( this ), Weyl fermion, Majorana fermion, Dirac fermion ( this ).
The last of this news using unreal phonon quasiparticle just vaguely says "these new methods could enable rapid advances in the field of quantum information technologies ?" ← Just speculation, still useless research.
The 1st paragraph of this news just vaguely says "In the future, the effect of plasmon (= unreal quasiparticle ) compression can make optical electronics competitive and boost the creation of an optical computer ?" ← just talking about "imaginary future". Nothing is realized now.
The last of this news just vaguely says "The potential is hard to imagine. Finding the glue for room-temperature superconductors is the next million-dollar question ?" ← just talking about "imaginary future". Still useless. = Media-hype.
The 1st paragraph of this news just vaguely says "University took another important step towards building a functional quantum computer ?" ← just talking about "imaginary future". Still useless research.
The 1st paragraph of this news just vaguely says "their study takes us a step closer to affordable linear optics-based sensors with high performance characteristics ?" ← just talking about "imaginary future". Nothing is realized now. Infinite "steps" are needed to realize them ?
The last paragraph of this news just vaguely says "The results of our feasibility study are very promising—we hope to soon have experimental verification of molecular parity nonconservation ?" ← just talking about "imaginary future". Still useless research.
The last of this abstract about suspicious photon just vaguely says "These observations open a route to study strongly interacting dissipative systems and quantum matter composed of light such as a crystal of individual photons ?" ← just talking about "imaginary future". Nothing is realized now.
The last paragraph of this news just vaguely says "the researchers believe that their findings have considerable future relevance ?" ← just talking about "imaginary future". Still useless research.
The 1st paragraph of this news just vaguely says " physicists have found a new way to create and tune the topological edge states in two-dimensional (2-D) topological insulators (TIs) for potential spintronic device applications ?" ← just talking about "imaginary future". Still useless research. Useless DFT calculation method is used ( this p.5 )
The 2nd paragraph of this news just vaguely says "This provides a precise ruler to measure the direct effects of dark energy driving the accelerated expansion of the Universe ?" ← Useless research about fiction which is too far away to approach and confirm.
The 1st paragraph of this news just vaguely says "Particle physicists have studied jets for decades to learn about the structure of quantum chromodynamics ?" ← Nothing useful is specified. Wasting money in imaginary particles.
2020/6/12 updated. Feel free to link to this site.