Researchers discovered that atomic rotations inside a crystal can unexpectedly flip direction while still obeying the laws of ...

When you throw a ball in the air, the equations of classical physics will tell you exactly what path the ball will take as it falls, and when and where it will land. But if you were to squeeze that ...

For more than 60 years, Bell's theorem has been the gold standard for demonstrating that quantum mechanics defies the rules ...

Quantum technology has promising potential to revolutionize how large and complex amounts of information are processed. While already in use primarily in laboratory and research settings globally, ...

Insulators are materials in which electrons cannot move freely. Past theoretical studies predicted the existence of an ...

Imagine a laptop that never gets hot, a phone that holds its charge for days, or a computer memory chip designed to ...

Electron spin may subtly break the symmetry between mirror-image molecules, helping explain why biology chose one molecular ...

University of Pittsburgh officials say its new, nearly $12 million quantum research center has the equipment and technology needed to move science and engineering research forward. A ribbon-cutting ...

Illinois Wesleyan University announced the creation of the Fisher Center for Interdisciplinary Quantum Science & Engineering, ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." For the past 30 years, scientists have investigated whether the human brain might require quantum ...

Graphic illustrating the difference in energy between running a quantum clock (left: a single electron hopping between two nanoscale regions) and reading the ticks of the clock (right). The energy ...

Qizhong Liang (PhDPhys’25) squeezes around a worktable tucked into the back corner of a CU physics lab. Spread out in front of him is an intricate arrangement of mirrors, lenses and tubes. But what ...