Physicists measured time without a clock at the quantum scale
Time feels steady and familiar in daily life, but at the quantum level it becomes slippery. That puzzle…
NYU physicists create visible time crystals levitated by sound
A strange form of matter called a time crystal has fascinated physicists for about a decade. These systems…
These Remarkable New Levitating ‘Time Crystals’ Appear to Defy One of Newton’s Most Famous Laws
Researchers in New York have reported the first observation of a new type of time crystal with a…
Chinese scientists achieve major breakthrough in scalable quantum networks
HEFEI — A research team from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) has achieved significant…
Global first: Physicists use light to reveal quantum vibrations in a superconducting material
Light can tell you a lot about what matter is doing. Visible light shows a surface. X-rays reveal…
The Schrödinger equation just turned 100, and quantum physicists are still grappling with its mysteries
A hundred years ago this week, at the height of the quantum revolution, Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger submitted…
New unified theory connects two fundamental domains of modern quantum physics
By bringing the long-standing and opposing views of quantum mechanics together to form a single cohesive theory, a…
First self-powered quantum microwave signal achieved in experiment
Researchers at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) and the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST)…
Chinese team tackles a century-old puzzle in physics: can we travel back in time?
Chinese researchers have proposed a simple yet powerful theory to explain one of physics’ oldest puzzles: why time…
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Learning how a physical system behaves usually means repeating measurements and using statistics to uncover patterns. That approach…
LZ detector marks a new era in the search for light dark matter and neutrinos
Far beneath the Black Hills of South Dakota, a tank of liquid xenon is quietly recording some of…