In an iconic thought experiment, Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger imagined a cat that could be dead or alive—a clever ...

Defying the laws of thermodynamics, experiments are beginning to show that a quantum state that is frozen forever might not ...

Where do you see patterns in chaos? It has been proven, in the incredibly tiny quantum realm, by an international team co-led by UC Santa Cruz physicist Jairo Velasco, Jr. In a new paper published on ...

Researchers have designed a quantum version of a pendulum clock. It could shed light on timekeeping in the quantum realm ...

New technologies are enabling scientists to tackle previously elusive physics problems. The macroscopic realm, which consists of everything from falling balls to orbiting planets, can be explained by ...

Time feels familiar. It marks every moment of daily life, from the ticking of a wall clock to the changing numbers on a ...

A recent study in Physical Review Letters explores quantum effects on black hole thermodynamics and geometry, focusing on extending two classical inequalities into the quantum regime. Black holes have ...

Quantum computing is becoming an increasingly competitive field with tech giants like Microsoft, Google and IBM developing the technology.

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At left: Microsoft’s Majorana quantum chip. At right: Xplore’s Xcraft satellite. (Credits: Microsoft / Xplore) BELLEVUE, Wash. — Quantum physics and outer space may seem as different as two tech ...