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)…
US develops two-knob quantum simulator with precise thermal control
Scientists in the US have developed a novel way to control temperature inside a trapped-ion quantum simulator that…
Extensible universal photonic quantum computing with nonlinearity
Rad, H. A. et al. Scaling and networking a modular photonic quantum computer. Nature 638, 912–919 (2025). Article …
Quantum Computers Could Freeze Like Ordinary PCs
A quantum computer’s cooling system keeps its quantum chips at temperatures close to absolute zero. Only under these…