The fifth state of matter—the ultracold Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC)—has been an invaluable tool in unlocking the secrets ...

Quantum effects are no longer confined to ultra-cold chips and vacuum chambers. For the first time, researchers are ...

Researchers at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) and the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) ...

Setting aside the insane upheaval going on i n US science, this year’s Physics World Live series will give you a sense of ...

When quantum particles work together, they can produce signals far stronger than any one particle could generate alone. This ...

As the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology draws to a close, Margaret Harris revisits some of the year’s ...

Using ultracold atoms and laser light, researchers recreated the behavior of a Josephson junction—an essential component of ...

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

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

All three winners of today’s 2025 Nobel Prize in physics are faculty at the University of California. The Nobel Prize committee honored John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis “for the ...

A recent groundbreaking experiment in which anesthesia was administered to rats has convinced some scientists that tiny structures in the rodents’ brains are responsible for the experience of ...