Physicists have made a major leap in our understanding of quantum entanglement by fully mapping out the statistics it can produce – essentially decoding the language of the quantum world. This ...

Erwin Schrödinger, a theoretical physicist steeped in the philosophy of Schopenhauer and the Upanishads, delivered a series ...

The new phase comes in the form of a pattern of electron spins—half of which are highly ordered, or "cold", and the rest of ...

Majorana qubits could be error resistant. But after a contentious talk at the Global Physics Summit, scientists aren’t convinced Microsoft has them.

A quantum algorithm for solving mathematical problems related to knots could give us the first example of a quantum computer ...

Physicists have used a cutting-edge quantum computer to simulate a complex particle theory in two dimensions. Unlike ...

A new method for manufacturing lightsails that can reach up 20% of the speed of light is making the technology look more ...

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 ...

This theory tries to reconcile Einstein’s theory of general relativity (which sees gravity as a warping of spacetime) with quantum theory (which views the universe as being made of extremely ...

Material Measurement Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States ...

It led to the theory of the ... evidence on magnetic flux quantization from superconducting loops to two-dimensional electron gas, which is observed in the quantum Hall effect.