HOUSTON – (June 17, 2025) – Vacuum is often thought of as empty, but in fact it is teeming with fleeting energy fluctuations — virtual photons popping in and out of existence that can interact with ...

In a new Physical Review Letters study, researchers propose an experimental approach that could finally determine whether ...

ETH Zurich scientists have levitated a tower of three nano glass spheres using optical tweezers, suppressing almost all classical motion to observe quantum zero-point fluctuations with unprecedented ...

Quantum squeezing is the generation of a quantum mechanical state whose uncertainty is less than the zero-point fluctuation. Precision measurement of an object with a quantum mechanical limit is vital ...

A Hiroshima University team has designed a feasible way to detect the Unruh effect, where acceleration turns quantum vacuum fluctuations into observable particles. By using superconducting Josephson ...

The vacuum of space is a chaotic sea of quantum fluctuations. Some have said that this vacuum energy can be harvested to build our future starship engines. It can't. But it is technically possible to ...

The achievement paves the way for understanding the transition between a particle's classical and quantum behavior. (Nanowerk News) Researchers Mitsuyoshi Kamba, Naoki Hara, and Kiyotaka Aikawa of the ...

A single nanoparticle made of glass (a white point near the center of the photo) is confined in an optical potential created with a focused laser beam. By detecting the light scattered by the ...