Selected Media Mentions & 2025 Publications
Work on the physical constraints of computation and the foundations of intelligence appearing this year in scientific journals and public science outlets. Featured in The New Heroes, a National Academy of Sciences Initiative spotlighting researchers working across science, creativity, and societal impact.
Foundational Questions
- Scientific American, “This Twist on Schrödinger’s Cat Paradox Has Major Implications for Quantum Theory” Explores foundational questions in quantum measurement and observer entanglement, overlapping with Reilly’s research on observer-moments and causal structure. Read the article →
Quantum Computing
- Nature, “Quantum Computer Race Intensifies as Alternative Technology Gains Steam” Covers emerging quantum hardware strategies; quoted on the design space for scalable quantum systems. Read the article →
Publications (2025)
- Physical Complexity and Black Hole Quantum Computers Michele Reilly, Seth Lloyd Investigates the physical resource costs—time, energy, entropy—of computation, from conventional and quantum devices to black holes and the universe itself. Read the paper →
- Natural Intelligence: The Information Processing Power of Life Seth Lloyd, Michele Reilly Explores how living systems harness free energy to drive computation-like processes, illuminating the physical basis of biological intelligence. Read the paper →
- A Quantum Algorithm for Khovanov Homology Alexander Schmidhuber, Michele Reilly, Paolo Zanardi, Seth Lloyd, Aaron Lauda Introduces a quantum algorithm to compute Khovanov homology, linking topological invariants to computational tractability and potential physical observables. Read the paper →
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