The renowned physicist on the lack of public support for political interference in science Extremely curved spacetime can warp cause and effect, creating channels for backward communication Advances ...

In the everyday world, governed by classical physics, the concept of equilibrium reigns. If you put a drop of ink into water, it will eventually evenly mix. If you put a glass of ice water on the ...

Big data has gotten too big. Now, a research team with statisticians from Cornell has developed a data representation method inspired by quantum mechanics that handles large data sets more efficiently ...

Until now, creating quantum superpositions of ultra-cold atoms has been a real headache, too slow to be realistic in the laboratory. Researchers at the University of Liège have now developed an ...

Scientists have created a powerful new way to control quantum systems, achieving the first-ever demonstration of quadsqueezing—an elusive fourth-order quantum effect. By combining simple forces in a ...

One of the many surprising features of quantum theory is its fundamentally probabilistic nature. Indeed, when measurements are performed on a physical system, quantum physics is generally ...

Quantum thermalization describes how closed quantum systems can effectively reach thermal equilibrium, resolving the apparent incongruity between the reversibility of Schrödinger’s equation and the ...

Quantum physics isn’t just complicated – after 100 years, there is an awful lot of it to understand. This makes writing an accessible yet comprehensive book about the topic a challenge in both ...

A NOON state is a superposed quantum state where N particles are in one state "at the same time" and in another "at the same time". Here, the particles are trapped in two wells, within a trap formed ...