Legio VIII Quantae is the name that was used to denote the quantum settlement established in León since the end of the year 2022. This name was chosen in remembrance of the Roman origin of the city, placed on the northwest region of the Iberian Peninsula, where other legions such as, the Legio VI Victix and the Legio VII Gemina were settled down between the I and the IV d.C.
Legio VII Quantae arose from the need to expand the “Technological Quantum Empire” after the fall of the “Silicon Empire” settled in Silicon Valley, California, since the 1970s. At the end of 2018, the first smartphones with 7 nm chips appeared on the market. The production cost and characterization of those chips was already estimated in 300 million dollars. In that occasion, several companies stopped their production before arriving to that minuscule chip-size due to the high costs and furthermore, it was estimated that the investment for the next node, 5 nm, would duplicate.
That’s how, in 2020 the big technological companies announced that the launch of the new telephone devices will have to wait at least for another year. Warning signs about the fact that the end of Moore’s Law, the end of the “Semiconductor’s Era” was close, began to emerge among the staunch consumers and the scientific community. This “technological apocalypses” was predicted by Gordon Moore, co-funder of Intel, already in 1965. However, despite the efforts of the big companies, the technological market came to a standstill and the sales slumped. Primarily, this situation cause a reduction of personnel but, immediately after, it continued with the closure of the smallest international headquarters, affecting strongly to those more unstable economies within Europe, a reality that reached the city of León.
In order to reverse this economic loss, a group of physicists met to find solutions based on the emerging quantum technologies. The task was not easy, considering that, most of the population knew almost nothing about the foundations of quantum mechanics. For that reason they founded in December 2022, the Quantum Academy for Arts and Science City of León, with the main objective to spread notions about this theory, to train and supervise the people of the city in such a way that, bit by bit, they could start adapting the jobs to the quantum technology demands. Nevertheless, the labor of the Academy did not stop there, and they commenced with an evangelization of quantum physics to the rest of society, imbuing to all generations, from children in schools to the elderly people. This was quite amusing, because elderly people now spent the afternoon playing “quantum cards”, trying to reduce the fault-tolerance of their opponent’s quantum circuits and, they really enjoyed it!. This effect expanded to other sectors, such as Art, where atom-light interactions were explained through “flamenco photons” and “gymnastic qubits” merged in a creative quantum-inspired dance. In the field of bioscience, for example, they started using optical pump atomic sensors for early detection screening of neurodegenerative diseases and cardiopathies. Gradually, their hospitals started putting personalized patients’s medication into practice by using quantum learning algorithms. All this together with the major progress in magnetic resonance imaging at molecular level.
The results of this revolution in thought were well-known and gradually, national and international people, guided by their curiosity, started their pilgrimage to the city. These pilgrims oriented themselves thanks to the quantum compass of the European Robin, in analogy to the scallop shells of those doing the Camino de Santiago, which became migratory birds to this city. Once in the city, they learned to look at nature and question about it. Those who completed the path and finally arrived to the last stop, León Cathedral, were aware that they were already observing nature from another point of view; what they did not know was that they would remain FOREVER ENTANGLED TO THE LEGIO VIII QUANTAE…
LEGIO VIII QUANTAE 