Bizarre Quantum Experiment Just Proved Atoms Can Exist In Two Places At Once
Yogesh Sridhar and Dr Sean Hodgman (right) working on their quantum experiment. Credit: Nic Vevers/ANU You can say…
Distance in space is an illusion
Andromeda sounds far away because 2.5 million light-years sounds far away. It lands with authority. It feels exact.…
Quantum vacuum exposed as collider turns virtual particles into matter
US physicists have shed light on a long-standing mystery after they captured rare experimental evidence that links the…
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…
Entangled atomic clouds separated in space boost measurement precision
Measuring the world precisely is much harder than it sounds. At very small scales, nature is noisy, and…
Scientists Produced a Particle of Light That Simultaneously Accessed 37 Different Dimensions
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Even Black Holes May Not Fully Hide Quantum Entanglement
Insider Brief A new theoretical study finds that quantum entanglement may remain distinguishable in principle even after one…
Hidden quantum spin liquid behavior confirmed in a new kagome crystal
Deep inside some magnetic materials, electrons can behave in ways that seem to defy common sense. Instead of…
Next-generation quantum sensor sees the magnetic world in unprecedented detail
In labs around the world, scientists chase forces too faint to see and too small to touch. They…
Quantum Physics May Predict the Next Financial Crash, New Study Finds
When Albert Einstein first debated the strange logic of quantum mechanics, he probably didn’t imagine his ideas might one…
Physics’ dream of uniting quantum physics and gravity just got harder
A new study has been published that further complicates the argument that gravity could be explained using quantum…
Scientists Gave a Quantum Computer a ‘Lie Detector Test’ and It Passed
The superconducting chip. Credit: Zhejiang University In a lab in Hangzhou, China, a small chip may have just…