Physicists have performed the first quantum calculations to be carried out using individual atoms sitting on a surface. At some level, everything in nature is quantum and can, in principle, perform ...

Boron nitride sensors enable quantum measurements under crushing pressure, redefining high-pressure physics. The quantum world is already full of mysteries, but what happens when this strange domain ...

On the second day of the IOP conference at the RI, I chaired a debate that brought together four future leaders of the ...

Christopher Nolan's new film 'Oppenheimer' features complex science. He brought on scientists to make sure he got it right, but they said they didn't have to do much. Nolan had researched enough about ...

A ‘quantum processor’ has solved a physics problem on the behaviour of magnetism in certain solids that would take the largest conventional supercomputers hundreds of thousands of years to calculate.

For more than a century, the laws of thermodynamics have helped us understand how energy moves, how engines work, and why time seems to flow in one direction. Now, researchers have made a similarly ...

There’s a lot of discussion about “time” in the world of quantum physics. At the micro level, where waves and particles can behave the same, time tends to be much more malleable than it is in our ...

Physics has a reputation for being dominated by men, especially a century ago, as quantum physics was just being invented – ...

In March 2018, researchers launched what looks like a white, cooler-sized fridge to the International Space Station. That heavy box houses a $100 million facility known as the Cold Atom Laboratory, ...

Floquet engineering: The periodic driving field contains a leading order contribution (left) and a correction term (centre). It generates the target Floquet Hamiltonian (right) that supports ...