Century-old cosmic ray mystery is close to being solved
New work from astrophysicists at Michigan State University may help resolve a scientific question that has lingered for…
Scientists simulate what an object looks like at 99.9% light speed
Physicists in Vienna staged how a cube and a sphere would look in a camera if they raced…
Scientists may have caught first real glimpse of dark matter
The key idea behind the findings is that if dark matter consists of weakly interacting massive particles —…
A mysterious glow surrounding the Milky Way could be first evidence of dark matter
For nearly a century, dark matter has remained an enigma. Despite outnumbering normal matter five to one, it…
15-year-old becomes PhD in Quantum Physics, sets sights on ‘creating super-humans’
Laurent Simons successfully defended his doctoral thesis at the University of Antwerp earlier this week. The topic of…
World Strategic Forum Shifts Quantum Conversation From Theory to Implementation
Insider Brief Florida’s World Strategic Forum signaled the state’s emergence as an active participant in the global quantum…
Kip Thorne helped prove Einstein right about gravitational waves – Deseret News
Two black holes spiraled into each other in a spectacular collision 1.3 billion years ago. The black holes…
Learning quantum states of continuous-variable systems
Trace distance The trace distance between two quantum states ρ1 and ρ2 is defined as $${d}_{{\rm{tr}}}(\;{\rho }_{1},{\rho }_{2}):=\frac{1}{2}\|{\rho…
Metamaterial with more shapes than atoms allows endless sound control
The age of smart, self-optimizing materials has begun. A programmable metamaterial has been developed that shatters the limits…
Quantum Sensors in Space – IEEE Spectrum
An emerging generation of quantum sensors are capable of performing tasks such as detecting the magnetic fields of…
Entanglement-enhanced nanoscale single-spin sensing | Nature
Casola, F., van der Sar, T. & Yacoby, A. Probing condensed matter physics with magnetometry based on nitrogen-vacancy…
Multi-qubit nanoscale sensing with entanglement as a resource
Rovny, J. et al. Nanoscale diamond quantum sensors for many-body physics. Nat. Rev. Phys. 6, 753–768 (2024). Article …