Controlling magnetism in a device is not easy; unusually large magnetic fields or lots of electricity are needed, which are ...

Biological systems, once thought too chaotic for quantum effects, may be quietly leveraging quantum mechanics to process ...

Strange metals have baffled scientists for decades, but a new breakthrough from Rice University researchers offers a major ...

Researchers at Quantinuum, CalTech, and other institutes have successfully used a quantum computer to simulate quantum ...

Physicists have just created the first-ever time quasicrystal, a new phase of matter that appears to defy concepts of time ...

One of the major breakthroughs proposed by Einstein in 1905 was the quantum theory of light ... James Clerk Maxwell formulated the theory that electric and magnetic fields propagate with the ...

A ‘quantum processor’ has solved a physics ... The problem solved by D-Wave concerns the theory of magnetism, a large field of theoretical physics. The electron spins of each atom act like ...

It was a product of what is now labelled the old quantum theory — a period of ad hoc ... of the electron’s angular momentum; and the magnetic quantum number, which described the size of ...

We may be at an analogous turning point today when it comes to quantum technology, says Yunger Halpern. The steam-powered world of the industrial revolution may seem far removed from the quantum ...

Despite the chillingly cold and breezy weather, the park’s usual characters were there, including chess players, tap dancers, people advertising “Revolution Books” and evangelists who handed me a ...

Physicists have proposed a radical approach that questions decades of belief about how gravity, spacetime, and quantum mechanics might fit together. They have introduced a theory that keeps the ...