90-year-old quantum guitar strings mystery finally explained
Imagine plucking a guitar string. It vibrates, the sound lingers, and then fades away as the energy drains…
Does 3I/ATLAS Generate Its Own Light? | by Avi Loeb | Aug, 2025
Press enter or click to view image in full sizeThe Hubble Space Telescope of 3I/ATLAS on 21 July…
Predicting the topological properties of quantum spin liquids using Rydberg atom lattices
The Kagome lattice used in the experiment. The red circle represents the blockade radius Rb = 2.4a set during the…
AI Is Designing Bizarre New Physics Experiments That Actually Work
“LIGO is this huge thing that thousands of people have been thinking about deeply for 40 years,” said…
What if we’ve been thinking about dark matter all wrong, scientist wonders
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Entanglement and the density matrix renormalization group in the generalized Landau paradigm
Dualities We explain here how to obtain the models dual to equation (1) considered in the main text.…
Using Grover’s algorithm to efficiently prepare collective quantum states in optical cavities
Grover’s algorithm, a quantum algorithm for search, can be used to prepare entangled states of many qubits efficiently.…
A New View Of The “Cosmic Grapes” Is Challenging Our Theories Of How Galaxies Form
Thanks to the natural magnification from gravitational lensing, researchers have been able to study a small galaxy from…
Researchers hunt for mysterious dark matter particle with clever new trick
Black hole galaxies emit energy and light, including gamma rays (γ) (left panel). If axions exist, some of…
Far Out | Sean M. Carroll, Willa Glickman
As scientists and researchers make sense of some of the major discoveries from the turn of the twenty-first…
Near-infrared photon-triggered CH4-to-CH3OH conversion over plasmonic oxyselenides
Structural and photo-physical characterizations The crystal structure of triclinic CuSeO3 with space group P1 is illustrated in Fig. 1a.…
100 Years Later, Quantum Science Is Still Weird
IRA FLATOW: This is Science Friday. I’m Ira Flatow. 100 years ago this summer, physicist Werner Heisenberg wrote…