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

Quantum information theory is a field of study that examines how quantum technologies store and process information. Over the ...

Every year, Santa Claus races around the globe in a matter of hours to bring presents to children all over the world.

A rewarding book that offers a cogent look at the science’s history and the second quantum revolution that’s under way ...

Physicists have long relied on elegant theorems to connect the abstract math of quantum theory with the tangible behavior of ...

Dark matter is an elusive type of matter that does not emit, absorb or reflect light, interacting very weakly with ordinary ...

The fifth state of matter—the ultracold Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC)—has been an invaluable tool in unlocking the secrets ...

More than 200 years ago, Count Rumford showed that heat isn’t a mysterious substance but something you can generate endlessly ...

An experiment with ultracold atoms reveals that a strongly driven quantum system doesn’t always heat up as expected. In daily ...

A recent groundbreaking experiment in which anesthesia was administered to rats has convinced some scientists that tiny structures in the rodents’ brains are responsible for the experience of ...

Physicists have coaxed particles of light into undergoing opposite transformations simultaneously, like a human turning into a werewolf as the werewolf turns into a human. In carefully engineered ...