For centuries, the concept of consciousness has intrigued philosophers and scientists alike. Often deemed too abstract for ...

This is what fun looks like for a particular set of theoretical chemists driven to solve extremely difficult problems: Deciding whether the electromagnetic fields in molecular polaritons should be ...

Researchers at UBC have found a way to mimic the elusive Schwinger effect using superfluid helium, where vortex pairs appear ...

Around the world, governments, industries, and technology providers are preparing for the migration to post-quantum cryptography (PQC). Standards bodies such as NIST in the United States and ENISA in ...

Ivan Todorov, theoretical physicist of outstanding academic achievements and a man of remarkable moral integrity, passed away ...

Lauda and his colleagues solve some of the problems with topological qubits by using a class of theoretical particles they ...

Recent progress on both analog and digital simulations of quantum fields foreshadows a future in which quantum computers ...

The researchers extended existing theoretical models to account for quantum fluctuations and applied these models to flowing condensates, discovering stable density and velocity fluctuation patterns ...

A new study addresses a foundational problem in the theory of driven quantum matter by extending the Středa formula to ...

The speed of light, c, is not just a very large number. In modern physics it is a structural constant: the conversion factor ...

Max Planck is widely recognized as the father of quantum theory for his groundbreaking work on energy quanta. His initial ...

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