Scientists Built A Tiny ‘Universe’ And Let Time Grow Inside It
The ‘cloud’ inside the glass cell is a magneto-optical trap of rubidium atoms at a temperature of ~0.0001…
Physicists Built Quantum States So Strange They Only Existed In Theory, Until Now
Reconstructed Wigner function of a superposition of two trisqueezed states. Its sixfold rotational symmetry and regions of Wigner…
Physicists catch spin handoff between crystal vibrations
The vibrations of atoms in a crystal generate one type of rotation, an intrinsic spin-like trait called angular…
What physics says about dying
A flame goes out, and something in the room shifts with it. Not because matter has vanished, but…
New study shows gravitational waves alter atomic emission patterns
Quantum mechanics and general relativity are two of the most powerful theories in physics. Each has been tested…
Scientists discover vibrating atoms can appear active without moving
Scientists in Germany have shed light on how nanoscale imaging techniques like tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS) can be…
New US laser technology could unlock 100,000-qubit quantum computers
Researchers in the US have developed a new technique that could allow quantum computers to scale to well…
Gold reveals new atomic phase under 10 million times Earth’s pressure
Researchers have captured the most detailed look yet at how gold’s atomic structure changes under some of the…
Physicists Shatter Quantum Computing Record
In a Caltech lab, a computer screen showed thousands of tiny points of light—each one a single atom,…
Scientists create quantum ‘telephones’ to connect long-distance atoms
Researchers in Australia have successfully created ‘quantum entangled states’ between two distant atoms in silicon. Engineers from the…