These Remarkable New Levitating ‘Time Crystals’ Appear to Defy One of Newton’s Most Famous Laws
Researchers in New York have reported the first observation of a new type of time crystal with a…
The Schrödinger equation just turned 100, and quantum physicists are still grappling with its mysteries
A hundred years ago this week, at the height of the quantum revolution, Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger submitted…
CBP Wants AI-Powered ‘Quantum Sensors’ for Finding Fentanyl in Cars
United States Customs and Border Protection is paying General Dynamics to create a prototype of “quantum sensors” alongside…
New unified theory connects two fundamental domains of modern quantum physics
By bringing the long-standing and opposing views of quantum mechanics together to form a single cohesive theory, a…
First self-powered quantum microwave signal achieved in experiment
Researchers at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) and the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST)…
Chinese team tackles a century-old puzzle in physics: can we travel back in time?
Chinese researchers have proposed a simple yet powerful theory to explain one of physics’ oldest puzzles: why time…
Scientists reduce the time for quantum learning tasks from 20 million years to 15 minutes
Learning how a physical system behaves usually means repeating measurements and using statistics to uncover patterns. That approach…
Quantum chemistry could enable safer, chlorine-free water disinfection
US scientists have taken a major step towards supplying hospitals and treatment facilities with safer chlorine-free water disinfection…
Qubits break long-held quantum limit by evolving in superposed time paths
For decades, physicists believed that even the strangest quantum objects had a hard limit on how strongly their…
For the first time ever, researchers made a photon travel back in time
Shattered glass does not leap back into your hand. Smoke from a match does not gather itself and…
Chinese scientists create super stable building block for quantum computers
Chinese physicist Pan Jianwei and his team have created a “quantum Lego block” that refuses to fall apart…
Record-breaking quantum material could outpace every semiconductor
Scientists at the University of Warwick and the National Research Council of Canada say they have achieved the…