Physics

Several science students may imagine a ball rolling down a hill or a car skidding due to friction as prototypical examples of the systems physicists care about. However, much of modern physics consists of looking for objects and essentially invisible sensations: the small electrons of quantum physics and the particles concealed within odd steels of

By shining a laser pulse series inspired by the Fibonacci numbers at atoms inside a quantum computer, physicists have produced a remarkable, never-before-seen phase of matter. The phase has the advantages of two-time dimensions despite there still being just one particular flow of time, as the physicists report on July 20 in Nature. This mind-bending

Richard Feynman once stated that the double-slit experiment reveals the central challenges of quantum mechanics, putting us ”up against the and peculiarities of nature and paradoxes and mysteries”. Nandini Mukherjee, Richard Zare, and their co-workers at Stanford University, United States, have currently revealed that when helium (He) atoms collide with deuterium molecules (D2) in a quantum

Quantum sensors, which identify the most minute variations in magnetic or electrical fields, have permitted precision measurements in materials science and fundamental physics. These sensors can only detect a few specific frequencies of these fields, restricting their utility. Now, scientists at MIT have developed a technique to enable such sensors to spot any arbitrary frequency

“This Is An ‘Edison Moment’ In Sensing That Will Improve Society.” Gravitational A significant breakthrough in quantum sensing technology is being explained as an “Edison moment” that could, scientists expect, have embracing implications. New research in Nature explains one of the first practical applications of quantum sensing, a largely theoretical technology that weds quantum physics