For decades, quantum physics and general relativity have stood as two powerful but separate theories. Quantum physics explains the behavior of tiny particles like atoms and photons. General relativity ...

The world’s best clocks may be sensitive to an odd mix of quantum and relativistic effects that would stretch time and test ...

When a guitar string is plucked or a playground swing is set in motion, the movement gradually fades away. Physicists call these “damped harmonic oscillators,” and Newton’s laws do a fine job of ...

A strange kind of geometry governs how particles move inside matter. Now, for the first time, physicists have uncovered its full shape – and it could transform how we design materials ...

A Hiroshima University team has designed a feasible way to detect the Unruh effect, where acceleration turns quantum vacuum ...

For almost a century, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle has stood as one of the defining ideas of quantum physics: a ...

Phase transitions, like water freezing into ice, are a familiar part of our world. But in quantum systems, they can behave ...

Chicago has quickly emerged as a hub for quantum computing, with the state of Illinois and technology companies pouring ...

The study showed that different theoretical models significantly affect the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) of black holes and provide various mechanisms for generating QPOs. In one model, the ...

In the 1920s, when quantum mechanics was young, physicists Jane Dewey and Laura Chalk performed some of the first experimental tests of the theory, based on a phenomenon called the Stark effect. Later ...

Researchers have achieved a remarkable result: capturing and studying phase changes in quantum hardware, which hold hold promise for next-generation technologies like quantum computing and ...