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September 1, 2026Revised September 1, 202634 min read
EssayEnergyAIMaterialsEngineering
The Exponent Is the Price: Quantum Tunneling and the Architecture of Wireless Electric Grids
The phrase "wireless power transfer by quantum tunneling" is, read literally, a category error. Single-particle electron tunneling through a vacuum or dielectric barrier is suppressed as $e^{- 2 κ d}$ with $κ = \sqrt{2 m^{*} Φ} / ℏ \approx 10 {n m}^{- 1}$ for a metal–vacuum–metal junction. Deliv…
Oleksii Vergunenko
August 29, 2026Revised August 30, 202619 min read
EssayComputeAIPhysicsMaterialsEngineering
Multiplication Without Transistors: An Audit of Photonic Matrix Processors as Accelerators for Large Language Model Training
Matrix multiplication accounts for the overwhelming majority of arithmetic operations — and a dominant share of energy expenditure — in training large language models (LLMs). Photonic processors perform matrix–vector multiplication (MVM) as a passive consequence of light propaga…
Oleksii Vergunenko

The Exponent Is the Price: Quantum Tunneling and the Architecture of Wireless Electric Grids

Multiplication Without Transistors: An Audit of Photonic Matrix Processors as Accelerators for Large Language Model Training