The quantum many body problem has been at the heart of much of theoretical and experimental physics over the past few decades ...

Researchers have successfully used a quantum algorithm to solve a complex century-old mathematical problem long considered ...

An international team of researchers has identified a quantum counterpart to Bayes’ rule. The likelihood you assign to an ...

USU mathematicians' theories could bolster quantum computing by predicting new particles and enhancing qubit stability.

Irish physicist William Rowan Hamilton’s pioneering work contained hints of the enigmatic wave–particle duality that governs the universe.

When we observe the world at our scale, everything seems to obey predictable laws, those of classical physics. But when ...

The operation of quantum computers, systems that process information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, relies on the ...

A new calculation shows how five atoms interact in the Efimov effect. It marks a major leap in quantum physics. Matter behaves weirdly at the quantum scale, one of the strangest examples being the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the ...

New measurements on Bose-Einstein condensate could help us better understand how objects transition from being quantum and ...

For many business leaders, quantum computing feels like science fiction—a technology that’s exciting, but distant. That’s a ...

In the pantheon of modern physics, few figures can match the quiet authority of Gerard ’t Hooft. The theoretical physicist, now a professor emeritus at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, has spent ...