PPhysics Read More Tiny Diamond Beams Could Unlock More Powerful Quantum NetworksSeptember 27, 2026 Conceptual illustration of an integrated quantum photonic circuit in which diamond nanobeams containing quantum emitters and spins are…
PPhysics Read More An information-theoretic proof of the Planckian bound for thermalizationSeptember 24, 2026 We demonstrate the following lower bound on the thermalization time. Result For any thermalization machine satisfying requirements 1…
PPhysics Read More Physicists Made Light Swim Upstream and Broke Newton’s Third LawSeptember 24, 2026 A leaf dropped into a river goes wherever the current takes it. To travel upstream, something has to…
PPhysics Read More Stanford physicists observe a quantum jump of sound for the first timeSeptember 22, 2026 Stanford researchers have directly tracked a single quantum of mechanical vibration, or phonon, abruptly disappearing from a microscopic…
SScience Read More Physicists find Einstein’s ‘spooky’ quantum effect inside Higgs boson decaysSeptember 20, 2026 ATLAS physicists found strong evidence that pairs of massive Z bosons produced in Higgs decays emerge with entangled…
CComputing Read More What the DOE’s Quantum Computing Competition Could Mean for Fusion and Battery MaterialsSeptember 17, 2026 The Department of Energy (DOE) on Sept. 17 announced the Quantum Genesis Q Competition, a $215 million initiative…
PPhysics Read More Einstein’s Gravity Just Passed a Strange New Quantum TestSeptember 17, 2026 A new experiment found that a falling quantum wave behaves just as Einstein’s equivalence principle predicts. The result…
PPhysics Read More Researchers Turned “Empty Space” Into a Tool for SuperconductivitySeptember 16, 2026 Schematic of vacuum-fluctuation-enhanced superconductivity. Credit: USTC Researchers used a specially designed cavity to strengthen quantum vacuum fluctuations and…
PPhysics Read More Scientists Turn Sunlight Into Quantum EntanglementSeptember 15, 2026 Using a new cone-shaped solar concentrator, researchers showed that sunlight can be used to create entangled photons. This…
PPhysics Read More 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 $100,000September 9, 2026 Rachel Chen, 18, won $100,000 for her innovative quantum mathematics research. (Photo: Society for Science) At just 18,…
PPhysics Read More Physicists Find Useful Energy Hiding in Quantum “Waste Heat”September 9, 2026 An atom in a cavity between two mirrors (left) acts as a heat engine in a driven-dissipative quantum…
PPhysics Read More Scientists Push Molecules on a Surface to the Ultimate Quantum LimitSeptember 5, 2026 Artistic representation of an optically excited molecule on a surface of a crystal. Credit: MPL, Alexey Shkarin An…