The objects you interact with every day are predictable – you can pick up a box, sit down in a chair without falling to the ...

Elementary Particles and the Standard ModelAfter the theory of relativity expanded the framework of spacetime and quantum ...

A new Duke Quantum Center study shows how quantum simulators can help researchers explore particle formation and the ...

In a study, physicists now observed a class of quantum particles called fractional excitons, which behave in unexpected ways and could significantly expand scientists' understanding of the quantum ...

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Working in close collaboration, researchers from Paderborn University, the University of Basel and Ruhr University Bochum have made a breakthrough in quantum communication. In their recently published ...

Scientists recreated a particle-forming process linked to the extreme physics of the early universe using a 13-ion quantum simulator. The breakthrough suggests quantum computers could eventually help ...

Particles Lose Their OrbitsAt the same time Einstein was shaking the foundations of time and space, another massive crack was ...

Most magnets have two poles: north and south, or positive and negative, in a familiar arrangement called a "dipole." But ...

A pair of identical particles swapping places sounds like a small move. In quantum physics, it is a defining one. In everyday three-dimensional space, that swap only comes in two flavors. Either the ...

Amid the many mysteries of quantum physics, subatomic particles don’t always follow the rules of the physical world. They can exist in two places at once, pass through solid barriers and even ...