Scientists have made leaps and bounds in bending atoms to their will, making them into everything from ultraprecise clocks to ...

Researchers at the University of Warsaw have unveiled a breakthrough method for detecting and precisely calibrating terahertz ...

Using the world’s most powerful X-ray laser, scientists have filmed atoms performing an eternal quantum dance that never ...

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Frederik Møller, Philipp Schüttelkopf and Jörg Schmiedmayer in their laboratory at TU Wien. (Courtesy: TU Wien) Atoms in a ...

Quantum information science is no longer confined to chalkboards and controlled laboratory tests. You now see working quantum ...

By building an atomic equivalent of the critical Josephson junction, scientists can now study how energy is lost and excitations form.

Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr had an ongoing rivalry about the true nature of quantum mechanics, and came up with a thought ...

Quantum computers, systems that process information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, have the potential of outperforming classical systems on some tasks. Instead of storing information as bits, ...

The quantum world has a reputation for being elusive, but physicists are now starting to watch it unfold in real time. For ...

In a major advance for quantum science, an international team of researchers has achieved the first-ever observation of ...