Browsing: Quantum Physics

Billions, perhaps trillions of years from now, long after the sun has swallowed the Earth, cosmologists predict the universe will end. Some people wrestle with whether…

You can harness energy by synchronizing time crystals.Nobi_Prizue/Getty Images To store energy with time crystals, double them. Mathematical analysis shows that by placing two time crystals…

Allowing movements that create quantum superpositions makes the quantum version of the Rubik’s Cube incredibly complex, but not impossible to solve

Certain knots, like this trefoil, can be formed from vortices within the quantum fluidLogin/Shutterstock By manipulating quantum fluids, researchers were able to form liquid knots that…

“This provides a natural framework, a bookkeeping mechanism, for assembling very large numbers of Feynman diagrams,” says Marcus Spradlin, a physicist at Brown University who is…

Mass transfer particle finally discoveredLaguna Design/Science Photo Library A strange particle that has mass when moving in one direction and loses mass when moving in another…

Simulations show that when a quantum battery shares a quantum state with the device it powers, the device can gain more charge than originally stored in…

Simulations show that when a quantum battery shares a quantum state with the device it powers, the device can gain more charge than originally stored in…

Ion trap helped create quantum defects in two places at onceAndrew Brooks, National Physical Laboratory/Scientific Photography Library Exotic quantum cracks are formed by charged atoms that…

Quantum computers need programmersIBM Quantum computers, which promise to revolutionize everything from chemistry to cancer research, are not yet ready for the mainstream, but that won’t…