Positronium finally shows wave behavior in landmark quantum experiment
Quantum physics overturned classical ideas by showing that matter behaves very differently at the smallest scales. One of…
Physicists Turn Quantum Chaos Into Something Surprisingly Useful
Quantum mechanics controls reality on the smallest levels, but when scaled up, it’s often difficult to gauge how…
FSU Physicists Discover ‘Pinball’ Quantum Phase in Electrons
In the ever-evolving frontier of quantum physics, a groundbreaking discovery has physicists buzzing: electrons, those fundamental building blocks…
The forgotten women of quantum physics
Physicist Chien-Shung Wu at the Smith College physics lab with an electrostatic generator AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives…
Graphene Electrons Violate Fundamental Law of Physics
Scientists have detected a “Dirac fluid” in graphene, where electrons flow like a nearly perfect liquid and defy…
Scientists Watch an Atom’s Nucleus Flip in Real Time for the First Time
Artist’s impression, based on actual measurement data, of the nuclear spin of an atom flipping between distinct quantum…
US testing quantum navigation aboard secretive military space plane
A US military space plane, the X-37B orbital test vehicle, is due to embark on its eighth flight…
Can AI Solve Quantum Physics?
The two most chaotic forces in modern science – artificial intelligence and quantum mechanics – may be humanity’s…
Scientists measure quantum distance in a solid for the first time ever
For decades, physicists have talked about quantum distance, a way of measuring how similar or different two quantum…
Strong coupling theory of superconductivity and ferroelectric quantum criticality in metallic SrTiO3
Pairing in 3D QFEMs for the linear coupling In this section, we review the theoretical tools used to…
The Hunt for a Fundamental Theory of Quantum Gravity
The world of Bousso’s new theorem still departs from our universe in notable ways. For mathematical convenience, he…
Minimal state-preparation times for silicon spin qubits
Silicon quantum-processor model We use a Heisenberg spin-chain model21,43 to describe a typical 1D chain of spin qubits…