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Solitonic waves—waves that keep their shape and direction of motion for a long time—have intrigued physicists for almost two centuries. In real-world circumstances, these waves eventually die out due ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oxford physicists created exotic quantum superpositions in a trapped ion, opening new paths for quantum computing and sensing.
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In its second antimatter breakthrough this month, CERN announced it successfully created the first-ever antimatter qubit, paving the way to even weirder quantum experiments. Reading time 3 minutes ...
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EurekAlert!—In a new study, physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have used liquid crystals, the same materials that are in your phone display, to create such a clock—or, at least, as close ...
Using integrated circuit fabrication techniques, a team of researchers has bound a single photon to a superconducting device engineered to behave like a single atom, forming an artificial molecule. It ...
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(jhorrocks/E+/Getty Images) Water is one of the most commonplace, essential substances in the human world. We literally can't function without its properties as a near-universal solvent. It falls from ...
Quantum mechanics is full of states that seem to defy ordinary sense, but one of its strangest ideas has usually been built from fairly familiar pieces. At the University of Oxford, physicists have ...