quantum mechanics

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

The Irish mathematician and physicist William Rowan Hamilton, who was born 220 years ago last month, is famous …

There’s a surprising similarity between religions like Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, and modern science. They all suggest that the …

In 2020, scientists in Antarctica made an extraordinary discovery. At the center of their report were findings about …

Two milliseconds — or two-thousandths of a second — is an extraordinarily long time in quantum computing. On …

A roadmap for the future direction of quantum simulation has been set out in a paper co-authored at …

Quantum computing, a field that relies on the principles of quantum mechanics to calculate outcomes, has the potential …

Future quantum computers are expected not only to solve particularly tricky computing tasks, but also to be connected …

Systems in which mechanical motion is controlled at the level of individual quanta are emerging as a promising …

At first glance, a system consisting of 51 ions may appear simple. But even if these charged atoms can …