Quantum physics paints a strange picture of the world, one filled with spooky connections, unsettling uncertainties ...

US physicists have shed light on a long-standing mystery after they captured rare experimental ...

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

Simmons says that silicon quantum processors offer an inherent advantage in scaling, too. Generating numerous registers on a ...

A century-old thought experiment on wave–particle duality is brought into the laboratory using a single trapped atom ...

NPL has joined forces with other leading National Metrology Institutes to shape the international standards effort in quantum ...

As well as being useful for creating an optical ion clock, this multi-ion capability could also be exploited to create quantum-computing architectures based on multiple trapped ions. And because the ...

A long-standing challenge in physics has been to integrate gravity into the Standard Model, which successfully describes the electromagnetic, weak, and strong forces. The difficulty lies in the ...

Quantum turbulence The swirling patterns in Vincent van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” can help us visualize the quantum Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI). The central spiral and surrounding stars and ...

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Trapped and squeezed: A single nanoparticle made of glass (a white point near the centre of the photo) is confined in an optical potential created with a focused laser beam. By detecting the light ...