What if the flow of time isn’t as one-way as it seems? Researchers from the University of Surrey have uncovered evidence that in the strange world of quantum physics, time could theoretically run both ...

Theoretical physicists at Emory University have discovered a way to use light to detect the "spectral fingerprints" of anyons ...

Mimicking atoms. Pioneering experiments in the mid-1980s showed tunneling and other quantum behaviors in superconducting circuits. This work, which has just been honored with the 2025 Nobel Prize in ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to a trio of scientists – a Briton, a Frenchman and an American – for their ground-breaking discoveries in the field of quantum mechanics. John Clarke, ...

Oxford physicists have recreated a bizarre quantum effect in which a particle responds to a magnetic field without ever traveling through it. Using a hybrid quantum computer, they demonstrated how ...

The word “vacuum” may conjure the image of empty space. Maybe you think of a region far outside the solar system without ...

Three theoretical studies have uncovered novel types of topological order inherent in open quantum systems, enriching our understanding of quantum phases of matter. Nature showcases an extraordinary ...

Richard Feynman, one of the greatest physicists of the 20th century, once said something that should either comfort or terrify you: “Nobody understands quantum mechanics.” This wasn’t a confession of ...

The dream of creating game-changing quantum computers — supermachines that encode information in single atoms rather than conventional bits — has been hampered by ...

A hundred years ago this week, at the height of the quantum revolution, Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger submitted a manuscript for publication. Its centerpiece was an innocuous-looking equation ...