Scientists find quantum link in how fast systems reach thermal balance
Physicists at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and the University of Geneva have proven…
Laser light reveals the hidden quantum properties of crystals
Two ultrashort laser pulses revealed a difficult-to-measure quantum property in an atomically thin semiconductor.Combining optical measurements with an…
Scientists observed a quantum jump in sound in real time by tracking tiny energy changes hundreds of times in milliseconds |
Stanford physicists have recorded what they describe as the first direct observation of quantum jumps of sound in…
Scientists find fundamental limits on quantum battery reliability
A collaboration of researchers from various parts of the world has identified the fundamental limits on the reliability…
Universal scaling laws for correlated decay of many-body quantum systems
Understanding the quantum dynamics of far-from-equilibrium open many-body systems is a major frontier in physics. From a fundamental…
Tiny Diamond Beams Could Unlock More Powerful Quantum Networks
Conceptual illustration of an integrated quantum photonic circuit in which diamond nanobeams containing quantum emitters and spins are…
An information-theoretic proof of the Planckian bound for thermalization
We demonstrate the following lower bound on the thermalization time. Result For any thermalization machine satisfying requirements 1…
Physicists Made Light Swim Upstream and Broke Newton’s Third Law
A leaf dropped into a river goes wherever the current takes it. To travel upstream, something has to…
Stanford physicists observe a quantum jump of sound for the first time
Stanford researchers have directly tracked a single quantum of mechanical vibration, or phonon, abruptly disappearing from a microscopic…
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…