Physicists recently mapped the hidden shape that underlies the quantum behaviors of a crystal, using a new method that’s ...

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The pioneering research was led by Professor Dibyendu Roy and PhD scholar Kiran Babasaheb Estake, and has been recently ...

With greater control over the quantum realm, physicists are poised to make major leaps in quantum computing, quantum gravity and more.

"Think of it as trying to hear a faint whisper in a noisy space," said Malida Hecht, doctoral student in physics at USC Dornsife and lead author of the study. "Quantum sensing devices detect ...

Quantum mechanics, or quantum physics, is the body of scientific laws ... believe in either atoms or discrete bits of light, but his concept was given a boost in 1905, when Einstein published ...

In physics, the truly surprising content—concepts that go against your intuition about the universe—emerges around high school, when students can glimpse the strange quantum world and ...

Whether it’s the sci-fi future of beaming humans across space or the more grounded concept of quantum computing ... a little-understood property of quantum physics, the original particle ...

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