Quantum Advantage Showdowns Have No Clear Winners
A series of recent experiments between quantum and classical computers shows the term’s ever-evolving meaning. ..
A series of recent experiments between quantum and classical computers shows the term’s ever-evolving meaning. ..
NASA’s Cold Atom Laboratory runs super-low-temperature experiments in near-zero gravity that would be impossible to accomplish on Earth. ..
By resolving a paradox about light in a box, researchers hope to clarify the concept of energy in quantum theory. ..
A new analysis of W bosons suggests these particles are significantly heavier than predicted by the standard model of particle physics. ..
Physicists are devising clever ways to exploit the extreme sensitivity of gravitational wave detectors like LIGO. But they’ve seen no signs of exotica ..
How might our universe emerge like a hologram out of a two-dimensional sheet? An infinitely distant “celestial sphere” could hold answers. ..
The same phenomenon by which an opera singer can shatter a wineglass also underlies the very existence of subatomic particles. ..
A surprising new solution to the famous “36 officers puzzle” offers a novel way of encoding quantum information. ..
Through his encyclopedic study of the electron, an obscure figure named Stefano Laporta found a handle on the subatomic world’s fearsome complexity. ..
Physicists are translating commonsense principles into strict mathematical constraints for how our universe must have behaved at the beginning of time. ..