Physicists have long treated space and time as the stage on which quantum particles perform, not as actors in the drama ...

Physicists are quietly rewriting the rulebook for how we might cross the gulf between stars, not by bolting bigger rockets to ...

An experiment with ultracold atoms reveals that a strongly driven quantum system doesn’t always heat up as expected. In daily ...

Ultracold atoms have successfully mimicked a fundamental quantum effect normally found in electronic circuits.

Quantum gas team: Frederik Møller, Philipp Schüttelkopf and Jörg Schmiedmayer in their laboratory at TU Wien. (Courtesy: TU Wien) Atoms in a one-dimensional quantum gas behave like a Newton’s cradle ...

For close to a century, scientists have been trying to marry Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity and quantum theory—our two best bets on understanding the universe on a macroscopic and ...

Dr. Pravir Malik is the founder and technologist of QIQuantum and the Forbes Technology Council group leader for Quantum Computing. For decades, the promise of quantum computing has rested on the ...

The ball rolls across the floor because it was kicked, just as Earth orbits the sun because it is tugged by gravity. The connection between cause and effect is fundamental to how we understand the ...

A century ago, the strange behavior of atoms and elementary particles led physicists to formulate a new theory of nature. That theory, quantum mechanics, found immediate success, proving its worth ...

Two physicists at the University of Stuttgart have proven that the Carnot principle, a central law of thermodynamics, does not apply to objects on the atomic scale whose physical properties are linked ...

IonQ, a quantum computing technology company, has finalized the acquisition of quantum sensing firm Vector Atomic. IonQ said Tuesday the all-stock transaction enhances its position as a full-spectrum ...

A scanning tunneling microscope and machine learning algorithm autonomously search for atomic structures. This image shows a vacancy defect on europium zinc arsenide. A research team led by Oak Ridge ...