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

For more than a century, the double-slit experiment has been the sharpest test of what reality is made of, and of whether ...

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

Quantum information theory is a field of study that examines how quantum technologies store and process information. Over the ...

Every year, Santa Claus races around the globe in a matter of hours to bring presents to children all over the world.

A rewarding book that offers a cogent look at the science’s history and the second quantum revolution that’s under way ...

More than 200 years ago, Count Rumford showed that heat isn’t a mysterious substance but something you can generate endlessly ...

Dark matter is an elusive type of matter that does not emit, absorb or reflect light, interacting very weakly with ordinary ...

The fifth state of matter—the ultracold Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC)—has been an invaluable tool in unlocking the secrets ...

An experiment with ultracold atoms reveals that a strongly driven quantum system doesn’t always heat up as expected. In daily ...

Physicists have coaxed particles of light into undergoing opposite transformations simultaneously, like a human turning into a werewolf as the werewolf turns into a human. In carefully engineered ...