Measuring the world precisely is much harder than it sounds. At very small scales, ...

Quantum entanglement happens when two particles become interconnected and share a single state. Scientists have measured how ...

Researchers at the University of Basel and the Laboratoire Kastler Brossel have demonstrated how quantum mechanical ...

Entangled atoms, separated in space, are giving scientists a powerful new way to measure the world with stunning precision.

In a collaboration between the physics departments at the University and the University of Chicago, researchers have advanced a theoretical proposal in quantum physics that could lead to breakthroughs ...

In their experiments, the team observed that the entanglement within the dark state could last up to 36 nanoseconds—a lifetime approximately 600 times longer than the 62 picoseconds typical of bright ...

Manuel Endres, professor of physics at Caltech, specializes in finely controlling single atoms using devices known as optical tweezers. He and his colleagues use the tweezers, made of laser light, to ...

Physicists at the University of Stuttgart, Germany have teleported a quantum state between photons generated by two different ...

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Quantum materials can behave in surprising ways when many tiny spins act together, producing effects that don’t exist in ...

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