Collective behavior is an unusual phenomenon in condensed-matter physics. When quantum spins interact together as a system, ...

Quantum materials can behave in surprising ways when many tiny spins act together, producing effects that don’t exist in ...

John Clarke, Michel H Devoret and John M. Martinis are announced this year's Nobel Prize winners in Physics, by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences at a press conference in Stockhom, Sweden October ...

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Scientists have, for the first time, experimentally proven that angular momentum is conserved even when a single photon splits into two, pushing quantum physics to its most fundamental limits. Using ...

Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for research on the strange behavior of subatomic particles called quantum tunneling that enabled the ultra-sensitive measurements achieved by ...

Forgetting feels like a failure of attention, but physics treats it as a fundamental process with a measurable price. At the smallest scales, erasing information is not free, it consumes energy and ...

Quantum theory and general relativity have long described the universe with incompatible languages, one speaking in probabilities and the other in smooth curves of spacetime. A new line of work argues ...

Rigetti achieved 99.5% 2-qubit gate fidelity, making meaningful progress toward the 99.9% threshold needed for fault-tolerant quantum computing. With $575 million in cash, Rigetti has the runway to ...