Our Reality May Only Be Half of a Pair of Interacting Worlds
Physicists sometimes come up with bizarre stories that sound like science fiction. Yet some turn out to be true, like how the curvature of space…
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Enhancing Mind-Bending Simulations of Curved Space With Qubits
One of the mind-bending ideas that physicists and mathematicians have come up with is that space itself—not just objects in space—can be curved. When space…
A Frankenstein of Order and Chaos: Researchers Discover a Hybrid Quantum System
Normally the word “chaos” evokes a lack of order: a hectic day, a teenager’s bedroom, tax season. And the physical understanding of chaos is not…
Max Planck and the Birth of Quantum Mechanics
In the early evening of Sunday, October 7, 1900—120 years ago—Max Planck found the functional form of the curve that we now know as the…
A Curved New World: Mind and Space Bending Physics on a Convenient Chip
Thanks to Einstein, we know that our three-dimensional space is warped and curved. And in curved space, normal ideas of geometry and straight lines break…
Scientists Verify Quantum Information Scrambling
Researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute have implemented an experimental test for quantum scrambling, a chaotic shuffling of the information stored among a collection of…
Expanding Cloud of Atoms Provides Insight Into Cosmological Questions
Researchers playing with a cloud of ultracold atoms uncovered behavior that bears a striking resemblance to the universe in microcosm. Their work, which forges new…
Physicists Observe Hysteresis in an Ultracold Atomic Gas
Using a superfluid atomtronic circuit, physicists have observed hysteresis in an ultracold atomic gas for the first time. Atomtronics is an emerging technology whereby physicists…