Forgetting feels like a failure of attention, but physics treats it as a fundamental process with a measurable price. At the ...

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Researchers at Google have used their Willow quantum computer to demonstrate that "quantum contextuality" may be a crucial ...

Long considered a serious technical challenge, superradiance could actually help quantum devices go even further.

At the smallest scales, heat engines can do more than Carnot ever imagined. Researchers at the University of Stuttgart have ...

When quantum particles work together, they can produce signals far stronger than any one particle could generate alone. This ...

As the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology draws to a close, Margaret Harris revisits some of the year’s ...

Dark matter is an elusive type of matter that does not emit, absorb or reflect light, interacting very weakly with ordinary ...

Try as they might, scientists can’t truly rid a space or an object of its energy. But what “zero-point energy” really means is up for interpretation.

Using ultracold atoms and laser light, researchers recreated the behavior of a Josephson junction—an essential component of ...

Setting aside the insane upheaval going on i n US science, this year’s Physics World Live series will give you a sense of ...

Researchers at TU Wien have developed a one-dimensional “quantum wire” using a gas of ultracold atoms. In this system, both ...