A survey of Scientific American’s century of quantum coverage helps explain the enduring popularity of strange physics ...

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Researchers at Hiroshima University have developed a realistic, highly sensitive method to detect the Unruh effect—a ...

Scientists have finally unlocked a way to identify the elusive W state of quantum entanglement, solving a decades-old problem ...

Astrophysicist Paul Sutter explains Quantum Mechanics - the body of scientific laws that describe the wacky behavior of ...

One hundred years ago on a quiet, rocky island, German physicist Werner Heisenberg helped set in motion a series of scientific developments that would touch nearly all of physics. There, Heisenberg ...

Caltech scientists have developed an artificial intelligence (AI)–based method that dramatically speeds up calculations of ...

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Everyone has their favourite example of a trick that reliably gets a certain job done, even if they don’t really understand why. Back in the day, it might have been slapping the top of your television ...

Traditional computers rely on binary bits for computation, while quantum computers utilize quantum bits that have superposition properties. The research team chose atoms as carriers for quantum bits ...

Quantum computing has been one of tech's most reliable running jokes for decades: always revolutionary, always five years away. But while CEOs sprint to slap "AI-powered" on everything they sell, ...