Quantum mechanics

Rachel Chen, 18, won $100,000 for her innovative quantum mathematics research. (Photo: Society for Science) At just 18,…

An atom in a cavity between two mirrors (left) acts as a heat engine in a driven-dissipative quantum…

Artistic representation of an optically excited molecule on a surface of a crystal. Credit: MPL, Alexey Shkarin An…

Scientists at the University of Ulm, the University of Oxford, and the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev collaborated…

This AI image shows a chain of strontium atoms (orange), each held in an optical tweezer (blue cones).…

Helium atoms can produce coherent X-rays at energies beyond the cutoff predicted by standard high-harmonic theory. Credit: Shutterstock…

Sample preparation and 4D-STEM A high-purity (99.999%), undoped, commercially available Si single crystal (Crystal Base Co., Ltd.) was…

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…

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…

Science Gallery Bengaluru (SGB) announces its newest year long exhibition season, QUANTUM, in Bengaluru on Friday.Science Gallery Bengaluru…

Artistic Illustration of a Superconductor’s Hidden Identity: Two Superconducting States Disguised as One. Credit: Hebrew University of Jerusalem…

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