Physicists Created an Entirely New Species of Schrödinger’s Cat
In an iconic thought experiment, Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger imagined a cat that could be dead or alive—a…
Quantum Art Validates a Scalable Path to Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing Using Multi-Qubit Gates
Insider Brief Quantum Art reported simulation and noise-modeling results indicating that its trapped-ion multi-qubit gate architecture can support…
Swiss Research Shows That Quantum Physics Generates Randomness
The project, conducted at ETH Zurich, involved two connected cryostats that cooled superconducting units called qubits, which behave…
Scientists crack a 30-year-old mystery about how black holes form without a dying star |
Most people picture a black hole forming the same way: a massive star runs out of fuel, collapses…
Active black holes are more common than we thought
Dwarf galaxy Henize 2-10 is known to house an active central black hole. However, the question of how…
Quantum Fisher information in a strange metal
Strange metal behaviour refers to a linear temperature dependence of the electrical resistivity at low temperatures instead of…
Oxford physicists just made Schrödinger’s cat even stranger
Researchers at the University of Oxford have created a new type of quantum superposition, a phenomenon often associated…
Evidence of time-reversal symmetry breaking above the charge density wave order in a kagome metal
Ye, L. et al. Hopping frustration-induced flat band and strange metallicity in a kagome metal. Nat. Phys. 20,…
KSTAR Sustains Plasma at Fusion Temperatures for 102 Seconds
Photo: sakkmesterke/Depositphotos (Not a photo of actual event) Scientists consider fusion energy the “holy grail” of clean power…
Excitonic spin torque in a magnetic semiconductor
Chernikov, A. et al. Exciton binding energy and nonhydrogenic Rydberg series in monolayer WS2. Phys. Rev. Lett. 113,…
Scientists Propose That Entire Universes Can Form Inside Collapsing Stars
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Scientists confirm the universe is still expanding faster and faster
The accelerating universe is one of those facts you half-remember from science class. Galaxies are flying apart, with…