A microscopic clump of sodium has become the largest object ever to be observed as a wave, improving upon previous records by ...

A cluster of 7,000 sodium atoms has just been coaxed into behaving as a single, ghostly wave, stretching quantum weirdness ...

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Researchers have demonstrated that a nanoparticle of 7,000 sodium atoms can act as a wave, creating a record-setting ...

They combined optical tweezers with metasurfaces to trap more than 1,000 atoms, with the potential to capture hundreds of ...

Quantum computers hold great promise for exciting applications in the future, but for now they keep presenting physicists and ...

The team have pushed the boundaries of quantum mechanics beyond what some thought possible. Now they want to go even further ...

Experiments reveal that metallic nanoparticles thousands of atoms wide can exist in quantum superposition, providing a ...

Quantum mechanics is rich with paradoxes and contradictions. It describes a microscopic world in which particles exist in a superposition of states—being in multiple places and configurations all at ...

Technique lays the groundwork for neutral-atom quantum computers with more than 100 000 qubits, say physicists ...

Cosmology and quantum physics both offer tantalizing possibilities that we inhabit just one reality among many. But testing ...

Metal clusters made of thousands of atoms showed quantum interference, offering new insight into how large objects follow quantum rules.