A plucked guitar string can vibrate for seconds before falling silent. A playground swing, emptied of its passenger, will gradually come to rest. These are what physicists call "damped harmonic ...

The solution to the damped quantum harmonic oscillator might sound abstract, but its implications reach far. One direct outcome of this work is the possibility of measuring position at scales ...

While conventional computers store information in the form of bits, fundamental pieces of logic that take a value of either 0 or 1, quantum computers are based on qubits. These can have a state ...

In work published in Physical Review Research, they present an exact solution for what they call a “damped quantum harmonic oscillator,” essentially the atomic-scale equivalent of a slowly ...

Physicists are exploring a quantum-mechanical approach to making smaller radio wave detectors.

The quantum bits (qubits) in topological quantum computers are based on particle-like knots, or vortices, in the sea of electrons washing through a material. In two-dimensional materials, the ...

For him, this was not a flaw of technology but a law of nature – namely, his own principle of complementarity, which states that quantum systems can show wave-like or particle-like behaviour, but ...