Scientists have pulled off a mind-bending quantum experiment that sounds almost impossible: they showed that tiny metal ...

Physicists may have just cracked open a hidden side of the quantum world. For decades, every known particle was thought to ...

Amid the many mysteries of quantum physics, subatomic particles don't always follow the rules of the physical world. They can exist in two places at once, pass through solid barriers and even ...

The concept of entanglement links far-flung particles. That relationship can prove that someone is in the location they claim ...

Physicists have produced experimental evidence that anyons, exotic quasiparticles long thought to exist only in two-dimensional systems, can emerge in strictly one-dimensional quantum platforms. The ...

Physicists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have uncovered new hints that certain particle decays may not behave as the ...

A pair of identical particles swapping places sounds like a small move. In quantum physics, it is a defining one. In everyday three-dimensional space, that swap only comes in two flavors. Either the ...

Theories of quantum mechanics predict that some particles can exist in superpositions, which essentially means that they can ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

On the International Space Station, a cube holding a diamond-based sensor revealed the potential for quantum magnetometers.

The device, described in a recent Physical Review Letters paper, generates phonons—a quantum mechanical description of ...