Quantum theory is often sold as a story about tiny particles, but its real disruption lands squarely on our everyday sense of what is real. At the smallest scales, the equations that power lasers, ...

This kind of ‘magic’ could lead to a computer revolution.

At CERN’s Large Hadron Collider on the edge of Geneva, scientists have reported a surprising twist in the behavior of matter.

Quantum physics paints a strange picture of the world, one filled with spooky connections, unsettling uncertainties ...

Physicists at Heidelberg University have developed a new theory that finally unites two long-standing and seemingly ...

Predicting the behavior of many interacting quantum particles is a complicated process but is key to harness quantum computing for real-world applications. Researchers have developed a method for ...

Can a single particle have a temperature? It may seem impossible with our standard understanding of temperature, but ...

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have uncovered experimental evidence that ...

Quantum mechanics is one of the most successful theories in science — and makes much of modern life possible. Technologies ranging from computer chips to medical-imaging machines rely on the ...

Stephan Rachel receives funding from Australian Research Council (ARC). Researchers at Microsoft have announced the creation of the first “topological qubits” in a device that stores information in an ...

In 1947, when Bell Labs created the transistor, we could never have imagined this invention would underpin the microprocessor, the internet, and the digital world as we know it. The same potential for ...

Concerns that quantum computers may start easily hacking into previously secure communications has motivated researchers to ...