A Vermont research team has cracked a 90-year-old puzzle, creating a quantum version of the damped harmonic oscillator. By reformulating Lamb’s classical model, they showed how atomic vibrations can ...

When a guitar string is plucked or a playground swing is set in motion, the movement gradually fades away. Physicists call these “damped harmonic oscillators,” and Newton’s laws do a fine job of ...

A century after Heisenberg formulated his theory, the field has transformed our understanding of the physical world, yet many of its applications remain in development ...

A modular quantum processor design shows ~99% fidelity. It paves the way for scalable quantum computing. What do children’s ...

Quantum materials, defined by their photon-like electrons, are opening new frontiers in material science. Researchers have ...

Rice computer scientists have developed algorithms that account for quantum noise that is not just random, but malicious ...

Quantum computing is no longer science fiction but a rapidly emerging reality—one that healthcare organizations must prepare ...

A new calculation shows how five atoms interact in the Efimov effect. It marks a major leap in quantum physics. Matter behaves weirdly at the quantum scale, one of the strangest examples being the ...

Physicists claim they may have found a long-awaited explanation for dark energy, the mysterious force that's driving the accelerated expansion of the universe, a new preprint study hints. Their ...

For a century, quantum theory has passed every experimental test, but physicists can’t agree on how to use it to paint a picture of our reality – or even whether that is possible ...

One notable example is the $34 million secured by British quantum algorithms specialist Phasecraft from a group of investors, ...