Quantum technology is accelerating out of the lab and into the real world, and a new article argues that the field now stands ...

Reliably quantifying and characterizing the quantum states of various systems is highly advantageous for both quantum physics ...

Physicists have chased a unified description of nature for more than a century, yet quantum theory and gravity have ...

Overview:  Quantum technology is progressing rapidly, but mainstream adoption will depend on breakthroughs in stability, ...

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The light interacts with the cavity and makes an arbitrary number of bounces before leaking out. This emergent light is traditionally treated as heat in quantum simulations. However, it can still be ...

Laurent Simons, a 15-year-old prodigy, has completed his PhD in quantum physics from Belgium’s University of Antwerp, in what could be a record time. The teen, who completed his bachelor’s degree in ...

D-Wave's stock suffered one of the worst declines among quantum computing companies in November. Shares have recovered somewhat in recent days after a Nobel laureate helped renew hopes that the U.S.

Quantum mechanics is one of the most successful theories in science — and makes much of modern life possible. Technologies ranging from computer chips to medical-imaging machines rely on the ...

One hundred years ago on a quiet, rocky island, German physicist Werner Heisenberg helped set in motion a series of scientific developments that would touch nearly all of physics. There, Heisenberg ...

The famous double-slit experiment brings into question the very nature of matter. Its cousin, the quantum eraser experiment, ...

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