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…
Physicists find Einstein’s ‘spooky’ quantum effect inside Higgs boson decays
ATLAS physicists found strong evidence that pairs of massive Z bosons produced in Higgs decays emerge with entangled…
What the DOE’s Quantum Computing Competition Could Mean for Fusion and Battery Materials
The Department of Energy (DOE) on Sept. 17 announced the Quantum Genesis Q Competition, a $215 million initiative…
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…
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 $100,000
Rachel Chen, 18, won $100,000 for her innovative quantum mathematics research. (Photo: Society for Science) At just 18,…
Physicists Find Useful Energy Hiding in Quantum “Waste Heat”
An atom in a cavity between two mirrors (left) acts as a heat engine in a driven-dissipative quantum…
Scientists Push Molecules on a Surface to the Ultimate Quantum Limit
Artistic representation of an optically excited molecule on a surface of a crystal. Credit: MPL, Alexey Shkarin An…