A team of physicists affiliated with multiple institutions in China has measured a pulse of light in 37 dimensions. In their ...

The efficient conversion of solar energy into storable forms of chemical energy is the dream of many engineers. Nature found ...

Astrophysicist Paul Sutter explains Quantum Mechanics - the body of scientific laws that describe the wacky behavior of ...

Quantum physics underlies technologies from the laser to the smartphone. The International Year of Quantum marks a century of scientific developments.

Kristian Camilleri is an associate professor of history and philosophy of science at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and author of Heisenberg and the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics.

This marks the centenary of the advent of quantum mechanics, which began in a flurry of papers 100 years ago. Just as it would be impossible to make sense of modern biology without Charles Darwin ...

In a milestone that brings quantum computing tangibly closer to large-scale practical use, scientists at Oxford University ...

Using quantum mechanics, we can expand the amount of information we can pack into a single photon of light, which will allow us to build extremely low-power optical networks as well as transmit ...

Another cornerstone of quantum mechanics is entanglement, where qubits become interconnected. Changes in one qubit instantly affect others, no matter how far apart they are. This ...

False vacuum decay model shows why our universe may be living on borrowed time In a nutshell Scientists used a 5,564-qubit quantum computer to simulate and observe “false vacuum decay” — a process ...

But is such an outcome inevitable? A new study, relying on the “many worlds interpretation” of quantum mechanics—along with a concept known as “decoherent histories”—shows that ...

Feynman suggested that the strange physics of quantum mechanics could be used to perform calculations. The field of quantum computing was born. In the 40-plus years since, it has become an ...