The discovery that things of subatomic size can behave as waves or particles interchangeably, depending on circumstance, was one of the most shocking and important features of twentieth century ...

In the anthology A Random Walk in Science, D.A. Wright delights us with a fantastic essay titled A Theory of Ghosts. It starts from the assumption that ghosts can go through walls and doors but remain ...

Oct. 30, 2024 — Researchers created a synthetic magnetic field using a superconducting quantum processor, which could enable them to precisely study complex phenomena in materials, like phase ...

this book is an ideal first course in quantum theory, foundations, and computation for students from undergraduate to PhD level, as well as an opportunity for researchers from a broad range of fields, ...

Find out how a black body experiment led to Max Planck's revolutionary concept of 'quanta,' transforming our understanding of physics. James Millen, Experimental quantum scientist, King's College ...

Quantum entanglement is one seriously long-distance ... Known as Bell's Theorem, this groundbreaking idea challenged established physics principles. Decades earlier, Albert Einstein had ...

has developed a new superconductor material that could potentially be used in quantum computing ... A superconductivity theory proposed by a Würzburg physics team has been validated in an ...

Researchers Unlock a 'New Synthetic Frontier' for Quantum Dots Oct. 25, 2024 — A new technique for growing quantum dots has not only found a new, more efficient way to build a useful type of ...

The development of quantum computers will make everything "happen better", a researcher at a top university has said. A team from Oxford University’s department of physics are among researchers ...

Their discoveries underpinned a new branch of physics and laid the ... They argue that quantum computing’s prowess remains strictly theoretical [PDF], and some say that it will never be capable ...