By combining approaches from two rapidly growing fields of quantum physics, researchers at Penn State and Saint Louis ...

From mobile phones and banking systems to aircraft, ships and emergency services, much of modern life relies on precise ...

First formulated in 1935, the famous thought experiment attempts to explain the weirdness of quantum superposition, but a new study shows that this theoretical feline is really only the beginning of ...

When checking that solutions to certain problems are correct, it turns out, you can’t get around the inherent complexity of ...

Researchers have shown that ultracold atoms can be driven into a strange new quantum state called a fractional Fermi sea, where particles organize themselves in unexpected ways. The discovery points ...

Scientists at Penn State and Saint Louis University have demonstrated that a magnetic quantum ...

A familiar thought experiment about a hidden cat has helped scientists take a meaningful step toward building reliable ...

Scientists at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) in the US have discovered a rare ...

Quantum mechanics has long relied on complex numbers to describe the strange behavior of particles, from tunneling to ...

A mysterious magnetic material once thought to host an exotic “quantum spin liquid” has turned out to be something entirely different—and possibly just as intriguing. Scientists studying cerium ...

Proving that one quantum measure­ment is more powerful than another has long been diffi­cult. Physi­cists from Hein­rich ...