Quantum control: the experimental setup used to generate tunable random numbers from vacuum fluctuations. (Courtesy: Charles Roques-Carmes, Yannick Salamin) A new technique for exploiting the random ...

Physics Ultra-fast random number generator uses quantum fluctuations. Variations driven by pairs of particles and antiparticles that form and then annihilate can be used to generate random numbers ...

So the quantum matter of the Earth gets its own random fluctuations. These fluctuations slowly destroy the superposition–they cause decoherence–basically, they collapse the wavefunction of the ...

For over 100 years, two theories have shaped our understanding of the universe: quantum mechanics and Einstein’s general ...

Recent work has focused on quantum-mechanical random-number generators that generate bits based on whether or not a photon is detected 7,8,9.Such systems are appealing both because the randomness ...

In a supercooled lab setting, a tiny crystal has quietly flipped a half-century-old assumption on its head. Scientists at ...

However, in the quantum world, even this "empty" space experiences fluctuations or changes. Imagine a calm sea that suddenly gets waves - that's similar to what happens in a vacuum at the quantum ...

They were looking to see whether these ultra-high-energy particles were bothered by random quantum fluctuations in spacetime that would be expected if gravity were quantum mechanical, ...

This results in random and violent fluctuations in spacetime that are larger than envisaged under quantum theory, rendering the apparent weight of objects unpredictable if measured precisely enough.

Very little in this life is truly random. A coin flip is influenced by the flipper’s force, its surrounding airflow, and gravity. Similar variables dictate rolling a pair of dice or shuffling a deck ...

Fluctuations are temporary random changes in the thermodynamic state of a material that is on the verge of undergoing a phase transition. ... “The direct detection of these moving vortices gives us an ...

In 2D superconductors, these fluctuations occur thanks to quantum vortices, minuscule whirlpools of magnetic fields that, above a certain temperature and voltage, spread through a material and ...