New quantum code reduces errors by 1,000x with 8x fewer qubits
IQM Quantum Computers has developed a new quantum error-correcting code that it says can reduce logical error rates…
Schrödinger’s Cat Gets Stranger: Physicists Demonstrate Quantum States No One Has Seen Before
Physicists at the University of Oxford have engineered a new class of ‘cat states’ — quantum superpositions constructed…
Atomic clocks may be powerful enough to detect the quantum fabric of time
Time feels familiar. It marks every moment of daily life, from the ticking of a wall clock to…
There is a black hole sitting roughly 10 billion light-years away from Earth, called TON 618, with a mass about 66 billion times that of our Sun — more massive than every star in the Milky Way galaxy combined — and its outer edge stretches across a region of space roughly 30 to 40 times wider than our entire solar system
If you point a powerful telescope at the right patch of sky on the border between the constellations…
Jupiter Accelerates Electrons to Near-Light Speed, Offering Clues to Cosmic Ray Origins
The giant planet’s bow shock isn’t just deflecting the solar wind, it’s acting as a powerful particle accelerator,…
Altermagnets can turn neighbouring materials altermagnetic, too – Physics World
Altermagnets can turn neighbouring materials altermagnetic, too – Physics World Skip to main content Discover more from Physics…
Why no two people ever see the same rainbow: The science behind this beautifaul illusion |
Whenever you spot a rainbow stretching across the sky after a monsoon shower, you think you’re seeing the…
Astronomers detect winds from a black hole reaching 30% of the speed of light
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An illustration showing two black holes. Recently, astronomers have detected powerful winds in a…
Space-time holograms based on programmable metasurfaces
Zheng, G. et al. Metasurface holograms reaching 80% efficiency. Nat. Nanotechnol. 10, 308 (2015). Article Google Scholar Gopakumar,…
US: Scientists find Higgs mode in a semiconductor for the first time
Scientists at the Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) in the US found an elusive type of vibration, called the…
Two-component exciton condensates in an electron–hole bilayer
Stamper-Kurn, D. M. & Ueda, M. Spinor Bose gases: symmetries, magnetism, and quantum dynamics. Rev. Mod. Phys. 85,…
23,000-pound magnet to power world’s most advanced fusion system
A massive magnet that crossed the Atlantic Ocean has brought one of America’s most ambitious fusion projects a…