Quantum Entanglement Generated From Sunlight For The First Time Ever
Entanglement is one of the best tricks in the quantum physics magic box, two particles that are inextricably…
A room-temperature cavity–magnonic source of correlated microwave magnon polariton pairs
Mandel, L. & Wolf, E. Optical Coherence and Quantum Optics (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1995). Scully, M. O. &…
Physicists Think They’ve Discovered a New Type of Quantum Matter
Quantum mechanics is all about explaining the weirdest, most unlikely aspects of our reality, including oddities we might…
Cold-atom comagnetometry via optical control of spin states
Pezzè, L., Smerzi, A., Oberthaler, M. K., Schmied, R. & Treutlein, P. Quantum metrology with nonclassical states of…
Light Reveals the Hidden Quantum Motion Inside an Exotic Crystal
Researchers used light to reveal the collective motion of electrons forming a Wigner crystal. Credit: Enrique Sahagún, Scixel…
X-ray-driven Hanbury Brown and Twiss spectroscopy
Crookes, W. Contributions to molecular physics in high vacua—magnetic deflection of molecular trajectory—laws of magnetic rotation in high…
Researchers Map the Hidden 3D Geometry of a Quantum Wavefunction
An illustration of how researchers used state-of-the-art photoelectron spectroscopy (left-hand side) with a lab-based soft-X-ray light source that…
Scientists Expose Hidden Quantum Identity of a Superconductor
Artistic Illustration of a Superconductor’s Hidden Identity: Two Superconducting States Disguised as One. Credit: Hebrew University of Jerusalem…
Vacuum birefringence and the polarized X-ray emission from a radio magnetar
Kouveliotou, C. et al. An X-ray pulsar with a superstrong magnetic field in the soft γ-ray repeater SGR1806…
Scientists Discover What Makes Hydrogen Go Quantum
A hidden structural switch inside vanadium determines whether hydrogen behaves like a particle or a quantum wave. The…
Laser–plasma amplification of an ultrabroadband laser pulse to 0.3 TW
Experimental set-up This experimental platform (Extended Data Fig. 1) was specifically designed to propagate an intense, ultrabroadband (>60 nm)…
Quantum Computing’s “Dark Horse” Just Cleared a Major Hurdle
Researchers have shown that exotic quantum objects called non-Abelian anyons can support a complete set of operations for…