As the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology draws to a close, Margaret Harris revisits some of the year’s ...

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

Quantum mechanics and relativity are the two pillars of modern physics. However, for over a century, their treatment of space ...

A team of researchers at the University of Waterloo have made a breakthrough in quantum computing that elegantly bypasses 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 ...

Long considered a serious technical challenge, superradiance could actually help quantum devices go even further.

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A new study in Nature Physics has turned an old problem on its head by reporting a way to use the noisy interactions between ...

The pioneer of quantum computing talks about how Albert Einstein would have reacted to his experiments, the hype around the ...

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 ...

Researchers have demonstrated for the first time self-induced superradiance in quantum particles, completely flipping what ...

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 ...