A team of researchers at the University of Waterloo have made a breakthrough in quantum computing that elegantly bypasses the ...

Quantum mechanics and relativity are the two pillars of modern physics. However, for over a century, their treatment of space ...

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Physicists are quietly advancing a radical idea: time might not be a single, thin line but a full three‑dimensional landscape ...

Quantum computing is a complex marriage of math, physics and IT that will take society’s achievements to amazing new levels.

Researchers at Google have used their Willow quantum computer to demonstrate that "quantum contextuality" may be a crucial ...

John von Neumann came about as close as humanly possible to embodying the Platonic ideal of a genius. Conversant in ancient Greek by age 6, the Hungarian made significant mathematical advances in his ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In the fall of 2022, a Princeton University graduate student named Carolina Figueiredo stumbled onto a massive coincidence. She ...

Theoretical physicists are trying to understand how the many possibilities that exist in quantum physics can become 'real.' A new model developed by UC Davis researchers suggests that there may be ...

Photo of the experimental setup to couple MWs to N- 𝑉⁢s using grape dimers. A stripped optical fiber with N- 𝑉 spins, cantilevered from a rod, lies between two grapes. The grapes were positioned on ...

At first glance, however, quantum physics does not really seem to adhere to this rule: Mathematically speaking, entropy in quantum systems always remains the same. A research team at TU Wien has now ...

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