Einstein’s Gravity Just Passed a Strange New Quantum Test
A new experiment found that a falling quantum wave behaves just as Einstein’s equivalence principle predicts. The result…
Researchers Turned “Empty Space” Into a Tool for Superconductivity
Schematic of vacuum-fluctuation-enhanced superconductivity. Credit: USTC Researchers used a specially designed cavity to strengthen quantum vacuum fluctuations and…
Scientists Turn Sunlight Into Quantum Entanglement
Using a new cone-shaped solar concentrator, researchers showed that sunlight can be used to create entangled photons. This…
Meet Rachel Chen, the 18-year-old Los Angeles student who expanded a 1997 quantum-math idea to describe entire particle systems with simple diagrams; she won $100,000
Rachel Chen, 18, won $100,000 for her innovative quantum mathematics research. (Photo: Society for Science) At just 18,…
Physicists Find Useful Energy Hiding in Quantum “Waste Heat”
An atom in a cavity between two mirrors (left) acts as a heat engine in a driven-dissipative quantum…
Scientists Push Molecules on a Surface to the Ultimate Quantum Limit
Artistic representation of an optically excited molecule on a surface of a crystal. Credit: MPL, Alexey Shkarin An…
Quantum Simulators Put a 40-Year-Old Physics Theory to the Test
This AI image shows a chain of strontium atoms (orange), each held in an optical tweezer (blue cones).…
Quantum Experiment Breaks a Long-Standing X-Ray Energy Limit
Helium atoms can produce coherent X-rays at energies beyond the cutoff predicted by standard high-harmonic theory. Credit: Shutterstock…
Atomic-scale double-slit interferometry with a focused electron probe
Sample preparation and 4D-STEM A high-purity (99.999%), undoped, commercially available Si single crystal (Crystal Base Co., Ltd.) was…
We May Already Have The First Hints of Quantum Gravity – Hiding in Plain Sight
The Universe is expanding, and that expansion is accelerating, according to the best data we have. The problem…
Quantum Computer Solves a Problem in 15 Minutes That Classical Methods Can’t Practically Compute
Scientists used a new error correction method to encode 70 logical qubits and solve a problem that is…
The history student who changed physics forever: The PhD thesis Albert Einstein said had ‘lifted a corner of the great veil’
The history student who changed physics forever: The PhD thesis Albert Einstein said had ‘lifted a corner of…