In a major advance applying insights from quantum physics to the inner workings of biology, a team of WashU researchers has ...

Studying and designing novel materials is a central application of quantum mechanics. Chemists, materials scientists, and ...

Shankar Mukherji and the team use a special microscope to look at nanodiamond sensors inside cells. (Photo: Sean Garcia/Arts ...

Researchers created scalable quantum circuits capable of simulating fundamental nuclear physics on more than 100 qubits. These circuits efficiently prepare complex initial states that classical ...

Once the panel have dealt with the controversial issues surrounding cats in boxes, they explore whether quantum physics is really an accurate description of reality, and if it is, are there, as the ...

Using ultracold atoms and laser light, researchers recreated the behavior of a Josephson junction—an essential component of quantum computers and voltage standards. The appearance of Shapiro steps in ...

Over a decade ago, when I was first starting to pretend I could write about quantum mechanics, I covered a truly bizarre ...

A team of physicists from the University at Buffalo has developed a user-friendly method that allows researchers to solve complex quantum problems, once thought to require massive supercomputers, on ...

Christopher Gilbert of Cumberland working on a quantum computing problem (Courtesy of Christopher Gilbert) When Cumberland’s Christopher Gilbert knew he solved the quantum computing problem he was ...

After the passing of physicist Anthony Leggett, columnist Karmela Padavic-Callaghan remembers their personal connection with ...