Richard Feynman, a famous theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize, said that if he could pass on only one piece of scientific information to future generations, it would be that all things are ...

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The researchers' novel approach could lead to smaller, and more efficient electronics – such as  smartphones – in the future.

Trapping ultracold atoms with laser light let researchers magnify and then image the wave functions of atoms that were ...

Modeling the quantum world is far from easy. The physical peculiarities of quantum mechanics are far removed from the world we inhabit, and there are systems whose complexity is even beyond ...

A ‘quantum telephone’ connecting atomic nuclei could make practical quantum computers easier to build and use.

UC Santa Barbara researchers are working to move cold atom quantum experiments and applications from the laboratory tabletop ...

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