Ancient Quasars Help Confirm Quantum Entanglement
New results are among the strongest evidence yet for “spooky action at a distance.” Last year, physicists at MIT, the University of Vienna, and elsewhere…
Quantum Mechanics
Physicists Hunt for Nitrogen Containing Molecules in Space
Physicists at the University of Innsbruck are on the hunt for nitrogen containing molecules in space. Using terahertz spectroscopy, they directly measured two spectral lines…
Scientists Use a New Method to Investigate the Nature of Axions
An axion is a hypothetical elementary particle whose existence was postulated in order to explain why certain subatomic reactions appear to violate basic symmetry constraints,…
Unlocking the Mysterious Quantum World With Wave Function
Quantum mechanics is a pillar of modern science and technology, and has benefited the human society for a century. The wave function, also known as…
A New Technique to Map Energy and Momentum of Electrons
For the first time, physicists have developed a technique that can peer deep beneath the surface of a material to identify the energies and momenta…
A New Kind of Quantum Computer Uses Photons as Qubits
Harvard scientists have proposed a new way to use photons of light instead of silicon chips as qubits, opening the door to new quantum technologies….
Researchers Confirm Theory of “Superballistic” Electron Flow
New experiments confirm theory of “superballistic” electron flow, revealing how electrons behave like particles in a viscous fluid to help bunches of electrons squeeze through…
New Discovery Reveals Quantum Particles Can Travel Backwards
Mathematicians reveal a unique property of quantum mechanical particles – they can move in the opposite way to the direction in which they are being…
Newly Discovered Phenomenon Shows Electrons Can Move Much Faster Than Expected
A new study shows that electrons passing through a narrow constriction in a piece of metal can move much faster than expected, and that they…
Quantum Physics – Teleporting Toward a Quantum Internet
New experiments in Calgary tested quantum teleportation in actual infrastructure, representing a major step forward for the technology. Quantum physics is a field that appears…
Engineered Viruses Provide Quantum-Based Enhancement of Energy Transport
In a newly published study, a team of scientists detail how they used genetically engineered viruses to enhance energy transport in genetically engineered excitonic networks….
Physicists Observe and Control Quantum Motion
For the first time, a team of physicists has discovered a way to observe and control quantum motion of an object that is large enough…
Scientists Predict Material with Record-Setting Melting Point, More Than 4,400 Kelvins
Scientists at Brown University predict that a material made from hafnium, nitrogen, and carbon would have the highest known melting point, about two-thirds the temperature…
MIT Physicists Create Ultracold Molecules of 23Na40K
A team of physicists from MIT has successfully cooled molecules in a gas of sodium potassium (NaK) to a temperature of 500 nanokelvins, creating ultracold…
New Entanglement Technique Could Make Atomic Clocks More Accurate
Researchers have developed a new technique that can entangle thousands of atoms with a single photon, opening the door to a new class of entangled…
Quantum Experiment Verifies Nonlocal Wavefunction Collapse for a Single Particle
Physicists from Griffith University have demonstrated “spooky action at a distance” for the first time with no efficiency loophole by splitting a single photon between…
Researchers Hope To Provide New Insights Into Quantum Gravity
A new grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation will help fund experiments at Yale University that may provide new insights into quantum gravity. Yale University…
Experimental Observations of Multiparty EPR Steering and Genuine Tripartite Entanglement
Using an optical network, researchers experimentally confirm that entanglement associated with the EPR paradox can be shared over three or more distinct optical systems. An…