Physicists have revealed a quantum state once thought impossible, where topology emerges even without particle-like electrons ...

Physicists are preparing an experiment that sounds like science fiction: a device designed to snare individual particles of ...

A study published in Nature Physics Jan. 14, co-led by Rice University’s Qimiao Si, brings together quantum criticality, ...

David Severn has taken a series of images of scientists working on quantum physics for King’s College London’s new Quantum ...

Can quantum physics enable better, cheaper, faster satellite photos? In a month or two, a startup will test a “quantum camera ...

Quantum computing is the bleeding edge of computer science and stands to solve AI's energy consumption problem. IonQ is an ...

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are pioneering the design and synthesis of quantum ...

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

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

Quantum computers could rapidly solve complex problems that would take the most powerful classical supercomputers decades to ...

We’re celebrating 180 years of Scientific American. Explore our legacy of discovery and look ahead to the future. This year is the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, according to ...

In the pantheon of modern physics, few figures can match the quiet authority of Gerard ’t Hooft. The theoretical physicist, now a professor emeritus at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, has spent ...