"Dark photon" theory says light's interference patterns may emerge from quantum particles, not waves, upending centuries of ...

As the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology draws to a close, Margaret Harris revisits some of the year’s ...

An experiment with ultracold atoms reveals that a strongly driven quantum system doesn’t always heat up as expected. In daily life, doing work on something over and over usually makes it warmer. You ...

For more than a century, thermodynamics has described how heat flows and engines run, while quantum mechanics has ruled the ...

Chinese scientists have proposed a new theoretical explanation for one of the oldest mysteries of physics — why time only ...

A new theory of "dark photons" attempted to explain a centuries-old experiment in a new way this year, in an effort to change ...

Quantum spin liquids are exotic states of matter in which spins (i.e., the intrinsic angular momentum of electrons) do not ...

In 1977, an American physicist named John H. Van Vleck won the Nobel Prize for his work on magnetism. In his Nobel lecture, ...

Physics simulations using classical mechanics is something that’s fairly easily done on regular consumer hardware, with ...

Probing quantum systems is notoriously difficult, even as their power promises breakthroughs. Where a Saudi company pumps ...

Laurent Simons, a 15-year-old Belgian researcher, has earned a PhD in quantum physics and says his work in ultracold systems ...

The Majorana 1 quantum computer was hailed as a significant breakthrough by Microsoft, but critics say the company has yet to ...