For quantum computers to outperform their classical counterparts, they need more quantum bits, or qubits. State-of-the-art ...

US researchers say they have built a laser system precise and powerful enough to control vast grids of atoms, a step they ...

Physicists have long relied on the idea that electrons behave like tiny particles zipping through materials, even though ...

Quantum entanglement happens when two particles become interconnected and share a single state. Scientists have measured how ...

Can a photon be caught behaving like a wave and a particle in the same run of an experiment? For almost a century, that ...

Ultracold atoms sit at the heart of the quantum-technology revolution. India has built a strong and steadily growing presence ...

Atom interferometry has emerged as a transformative approach in both fundamental physics and practical applications, utilising the wave nature of atoms to measure minute effects of gravity, rotation ...

A single atom as a movable slit: Researchers realize Einstein's thought experiment in original form, observing quantum-classical transition.

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

Stockholm — Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for studying how electrons zip around atoms in fractions of seconds, a field that could one day lead to better electronics or ...