Quantum mechanics and general relativity are the two pinnacles of 20th-century physics. In their respective fields, ...

Physicists once treated Einstein’s picture of a clockwork universe as the gold standard for what “reality” should look like, ...

Quantum computers could one day blow boring old classical computers out of the water, but so far their complexity limits their usefulness. Engineers at Stanford have now demonstrated a new relatively ...

Researchers have experimentally recreated another fundamental theoretical model from quantum physics, which goes back to the Nobel Prize laureate Werner Heisenberg. The basis for the successful ...

It's one thing to dream up a quantum internet that could send hacker-proof information around the world via photons superimposed in different quantum states. It's quite another to physically show it's ...

Quantum computers, which operate leveraging effects rooted in quantum mechanics, have the potential of tackling some ...

Quantum computers will be able to assume highly complex tasks in the future. With superconducting quantum processors, however ...

On the International Space Station, astronauts are weightless. Atoms are, too. That weightlessness makes it easier to study a weird quantum state of matter known as a Bose-Einstein condensate. Now, ...

Rigetti has built the largest modular quantum computer yet by linking together four 9-qubit chips to create a 36-qubit system. But it's not just about size—the ...