First formulated in 1935, the famous thought experiment attempts to explain the weirdness of quantum superposition, but a new study shows that this theoretical feline is really only the beginning of ...

A familiar thought experiment about a hidden cat has helped scientists take a meaningful step toward building reliable ...

Researchers have shown that ultracold atoms can be driven into a strange new quantum state called a fractional Fermi sea, where particles organize themselves in unexpected ways. The discovery points ...

Kai Sun of the University of Michigan is a humble physics professor with ambitious goals. "I'm mainly a paper-and-pencil type of theorist, doing analytical calculations mostly," Sun said. "My ...

Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a technique that uses a single trapped ion ...

Strongly interacting quantum particles are key to some of the most fascinating phenomena in modern physics—from magnetism and ...

Sound waves, light waves and other types of waves, generally spread freely through space and over time. In 1958, physicist ...

Together, they form Helios, a new quantum computer built by the British-American company Quantinuum. Quantum computers use ...

A surge of funding and federal action is giving the once-futuristic technology a more immediate role in everything from ...

A mysterious magnetic material once thought to host an exotic “quantum spin liquid” has turned out to be something entirely different—and possibly just as intriguing. Scientists studying cerium ...

While China’s SpinQ raises $147m, announces establishment of superconducting quantum chip facility in Shenzhen ...