Principles of optics in Fock space for the scalable manipulation of large quantum states
Maxwell, J. C. VIII. A dynamical theory of the electromagnetic field. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 155, 459–512…
Physicists created a tiny universe where time emerged without a clock
A physicist at the University of Birmingham has created a laboratory “mini universe” that brings scientists a step…
Where Does Quantum Computing Stand?
Key Takeaways: Quantum technology is seeing very active development, but most commercial offerings remain years away. QED-C represents…
The optics of an OCR increase during an election year
While the choice to hike the Official Cash Rate (OCR) can be justified economically, how these decisions are…
Physicist says splashy new cosmology study made ‘elemental’ mistake
Two weeks ago, when Till Sawala heard the news of a peer-reviewed paper that purported to upend our…
A British tokamak just came apart after more than 5,000 plasma pulses, a squashed doughnut that hit 100 million degrees, six times hotter than the core of the Sun, held together by magnets pushing seven million ampere turns through a column at 11.8 tesla
KeysQuestions4Explore4 The UK’s fusion ambitions just got a brutally honest reality check — Britain needs 30,000 kilometers of…
Physicists develop the first working model of quantum mechanics using only ‘real’ numbers
For the first time, physicists have built a working version of quantum mechanics without complex numbers — numbers…
Quantum computing wielded to create extremely rare material critical to nuclear fusion
Using a quantum computer alongside a supercomputer, scientists have developed a breakthrough pathway for modeling the physics inside…
TIFR Hyderabad researchers reveal why some glasses break suddenly while others deform smoothly
If a liquid is cooled slowly till its freezing point, it becomes a crystal where the constituent particles…
America just lowered the final 110-ton coil into a 1,000-ton magnet as tall as a five-story building, threading it into a gap with two inches of clearance on one side, and its builder says the finished stack packs enough force to lift an aircraft carrier six feet out of the water
KeysQuestions4Explore4 General Atomics just completed the most powerful pulsed superconducting magnet ever built, and the numbers behind it…
Fractional Fermi Sea: Physicists Discover a New Phase of Matter Beyond Established Theory
Ultracold cesium atoms locked into a hidden, ordered state after being cycled between repulsive and attractive interactions. Credit:…
New study reveals how dark matter formed shortly after the Big Bang
Dark matter may not have needed a calm, cold start to help build the universe. For decades, that…