Quantum theory and Einstein's theory of general relativity are two of the greatest successes in modern physics. Each works ...

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

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

Long considered a serious technical challenge, superradiance could actually help quantum devices go even further.

Quantum computers, systems that process information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, could soon outperform classical computers on some complex computational problems. These computers rely on ...

More than 200 years ago, Count Rumford showed that heat isn’t a mysterious substance but something you can generate endlessly ...

A rewarding book that offers a cogent look at the science’s history and the second quantum revolution that’s under way ...

Try as they might, scientists can’t truly rid a space or an object of its energy. But what “zero-point energy” really means ...

Quantum information theory is a field of study that examines how quantum technologies store and process information. Over the ...

An experiment with ultracold atoms reveals that a strongly driven quantum system doesn’t always heat up as expected. In daily ...

Physicists have coaxed particles of light into undergoing opposite transformations simultaneously, like a human turning into a werewolf as the werewolf turns into a human. In carefully engineered ...

In a Columbia University laboratory in New York, physicist Sebastian Will and his team have reached one of ultracold physics’ ...