Researchers around the world are racing to develop new quantum-based systems for sensing, communication, computing and ...

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Using a conventional computer and cutting-edge mathematical tools and code, physicists at the Center for Computational Quantum Physics (CCQ) at the Simons Foundation's Flatiron Institute and ...

In a new study published in Physical Review Letters, a team from the Nägerl group, together with theory collaborator Alvise ...

Researchers at the University of Oxford have discovered not one but an entire family of weird states that subjects can exist ...

Photo of the experimental setup to couple MWs to N- 𝑉⁢s using grape dimers. A stripped optical fiber with N- 𝑉 spins, cantilevered from a rod, lies between two grapes. The grapes were positioned on ...

Swapping materials in its Majorana 2 chip boosted the effectiveness of quantum bits that rely on the math of topology to reduce errors, Microsoft says.

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 ...

A new proposal makes the case that paraparticles — a new category of quantum particle — could be created in exotic materials. Wang was eager to develop the accidental discovery into a full theory of ...

John von Neumann came about as close as humanly possible to embodying the Platonic ideal of a genius. Conversant in ancient Greek by age 6, the Hungarian made significant mathematical advances in his ...

Some scientists make discoveries. Others create entirely new ways of understanding the universe. Harish-Chandra belonged to ...