Quantum theory and Einstein's theory of general relativity are two of the greatest successes in modern physics. Each works ...

Try as they might, scientists can’t truly rid a space or an object of its energy. But what “zero-point energy” really means ...

Beyond artificial intelligence (AI), another transformative technology that could reshape industries and reorder geopolitical power is finally moving out of the lab: quantum.

Long considered a serious technical challenge, superradiance could actually help quantum devices go even further.

To explore how spin systems behave collectively, the researchers coupled a dense ensemble of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in ...

Dark matter is an elusive type of matter that does not emit, absorb or reflect light, interacting very weakly with ordinary ...

"Dark photon" theory says light's interference patterns may emerge from quantum particles, not waves, upending centuries of ...

Researchers have demonstrated for the first time self-induced superradiance in quantum particles, completely flipping what ...

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Forgetting feels like a failure of attention, but physics treats it as a fundamental process with a measurable price. At the ...

Photonic says it’s trying to build the world’s first highly scalable fault-tolerant quantum computer. It’s doing so with a ...