Two landmark quantum experiments have sharpened one of the oldest arguments in modern physics, and the verdict is not kind to ...

Now, two unrelated-but-similar experiments confirm that, in a double-slit experiment, detection of a photon’s path (its ...

John Clarke, Michel H Devoret and John M. Martinis are announced this year's Nobel Prize winners in Physics, by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences at a press conference in Stockhom, Sweden October ...

Quantum mechanics is weird. When you think you have reached the bottom of its weirdness, you always discover a new ...

Quantum theory and Einstein's theory of general relativity are two of the greatest successes in modern physics. Each works ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to a trio of scientists – a Briton, a Frenchman and an American – for their ground-breaking discoveries in the field of quantum mechanics.John Clarke, ...

STOCKHOLM — U.S.-based scientists John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for “experiments that revealed quantum physics in action,” paving the way for the ...

Quantum mechanics is one of the most successful theories in science — and makes much of modern life possible. Technologies ranging from computer chips to medical-imaging machines rely on the ...

Take, for instance, quantum entanglement, which says that the state of one particle can be determined by examining the state ...

Long considered a serious technical challenge, superradiance could actually help quantum devices go even further.

Try as they might, scientists can’t truly rid a space or an object of its energy. But what “zero-point energy” really means ...

STOCKHOLM - U.S.-based scientists John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for "experiments that revealed quantum physics in action," paving the way for the ...