It may be worth winding the clock back to 1960, when the physicist Eugene Wigner published an article with the title “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences”. Physics ...

The quantum many body problem has been at the heart of much of theoretical and experimental physics over the past few decades ...

Amid high expectations for quantum technology, a new paper in Science reports a proven quantum advantage. In an experiment, ...

A survey of Scientific American’s century of quantum coverage helps explain the enduring popularity of strange physics ...

Foundational research is paving the way for next-generation quantum sensors. Physicists in Australia and the United Kingdom ...

Physicists have achieved a breakthrough by using a 58-qubit quantum computer to create and observe a long-theorized but never ...

This year is the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, according to UNESCO, marking 100 years since quantum mechanics was proposed. The theory hardly needed the extra publicity, though ...

An array of 6100 ultracold caesium atoms controlled by lasers is the largest collection of qubits ever assembled, and ...

A hidden world of quantum metrologists ensure that everyday devices perform safely and correctly, but their work is never ...

Quantum mechanics is our most successful physical theory. Created to account for atomic phenomena, it has a vast range of applications extending well beyond the atomic realm, from predicting the ...

Scientists in Japan have uncovered a strange new behavior in “heavy” electrons — particles that act as if they carry far more mass than usual. These electrons were found to be entangled, sharing a ...