Long considered a serious technical challenge, superradiance could actually help quantum devices go even further.

Physicists in China have brought one of Einstein’s thought experiments into reality—but not quite with the outcome he hoped ...

Take, for instance, quantum entanglement, which says that the state of one particle can be determined by examining the state ...

A rewarding book that offers a cogent look at the science’s history and the second quantum revolution that’s under way ...

Quantum information theory is a field of study that examines how quantum technologies store and process information. Over the ...

Every year, Santa Claus races around the globe in a matter of hours to bring presents to children all over the world.

In a Columbia University laboratory in New York, physicist Sebastian Will and his team have reached one of ultracold physics’ ...

Physicists have long relied on elegant theorems to connect the abstract math of quantum theory with the tangible behavior of ...

Physicists have coaxed particles of light into undergoing opposite transformations simultaneously, like a human turning into a werewolf as the werewolf turns into a human. In carefully engineered ...

More than 200 years ago, Count Rumford showed that heat isn’t a mysterious substance but something you can generate endlessly ...

The fifth state of matter—the ultracold Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC)—has been an invaluable tool in unlocking the secrets ...

Physicists have built a quantum gas that behaves nothing like the substances we are used to, and that is exactly why it is ...