A new twist on Schrödinger’s Cat could finally unite quantum mechanics and Einstein’s relativity
A theoretical study applies spontaneous wavefunction collapse to a simplified model of cosmic geometry.Its modified dynamics can narrow…
Physicists build three-flavor quantum system to probe competing forces
What happens when three different kinds of particles interact, and each pair behaves differently? Physicists have now recreated…
China’s Tiangong space station sets a record with 9.7-picokelvin quantum gas
Researchers aboard Tiangong produced a rubidium cloud with a record-low equivalent temperature of 9.7 picokelvin, based on its…
Particle Physicists Are Getting a First Glimpse Into the ‘Zeptoverse’
The Large Hadron Collider has been slamming protons together for years. But recently, a proton collision produced an…
Scientists made a pattern in light that survives a broken quantum bond
Quantum computers could become far more powerful if scientists could connect them through networks, allowing them to share…
Schrödinger’s toy hidden-variable model revealed in unpublished manuscript
An unpublished, undated manuscript belonging to Erwin Schrödinger lies in the Austrian Central Library for Physics at the…
Narrow-linewidth, piezoelectrically tunable photonic integrated blue laser
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Intrinsic backward emission of coherent Raman photons from homogeneous media
Guided by the theoretical analysis presented above, we implemented an excitation geometry optimized for the direct generation of…
Scientists find quantum link in how fast systems reach thermal balance
Physicists at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and the University of Geneva have proven…
Controllable transient coherent state reproduction in lasers
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Scientists Discover a Strange New Quantum State Where Two Materials Meet
Artistic illustration of electrons interacting at the interface between a one-atom-thick material and a metal, forming an unusual…
Researchers Stretch a Quantum Material and Uncover Two Hidden Superconducting States
CsV3Sb5 is an unusual quantum material known as a kagome metal, named for the interconnected triangular pattern of…