Quantum materials are a class of exotic materials with special properties that are governed by quantum mechanics rather than ...

Theoretical physicists studying quantum fields in curved spacetime have built a growing body of calculations showing that ...

Florida State University physicists are part of a team that has discovered unusual superconducting states in parts of graphene, with the potential to drive unexpected quantum technologies.

Scott says that "...a quantum computer is a proposed machine that would exploit the laws of quantum physics." The particular quirk of quantum physics that quantum computers exploit is superposition: ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In the fall of 2022, a Princeton University graduate student named Carolina Figueiredo stumbled onto a massive coincidence. She ...

Quantum technologies are often associated with extraordinary complexity. The states that give quantum devices their potential ...

Building useful quantum technologies—from sensors to computers—requires generating highly complex entangled states, in which ...

Space and time looked settled, at least in broad outline. Einstein’s special relativity gave physics a durable framework for ...