This is the International Year of the Quantum, celebrating quantum science and its many applications. It also marks the centenary of Werner Heisenberg’s seminal work in modern physics. In recent years ...

The researchers believe this new device can be scaled up to solve specific problems that are too complex for digital computers to solve, such as simulating room-temperature superconductors. Physicists ...

Although the basic idea of quantum physics dates back to the earliest years of the twentieth century, it wasn’t until 1925, on the German island of Heligoland, that Werner Heisenberg had the ...

What makes something quantum? This question has kept a small but dedicated fraction of the world’s population – most of them quantum physicists – up at night for decades. At very small scales, we know ...

What if the flow of time isn’t as one-way as it seems? Researchers from the University of Surrey have uncovered evidence that in the strange world of quantum physics, time could theoretically run both ...

A new study explores how EOS transmits ultrashort laser pulses through crystals that change in response to an applied electric field. This technique allows researchers to accurately capture the shape ...

Researchers claim they can prove that it is possible for two versions of reality to exist at the same time, but only at the quantum level. The belief that there are multiple versions of ourselves in ...

“There’s a whole quest to build a quantum computer,” Frank Verstraete, one of Belgium’s top quantum physicist, tells me. “All the big technology companies like Google and Amazon and IBM are pouring in ...

The theory of quantum mechanics has transformed daily life since being proposed a century ago, yet how it works remains a mystery—and physicists are deeply divided about what is actually going on, a ...

While quantum entanglement mimicks the first law of thermodynamics in terms of entropy in a system, scientists wonder if the second law—especially the part about reversibility—could hold true. A new ...