Trapping ultracold atoms with laser light let researchers magnify and then image the wave functions of atoms that were ...

Quantum mechanics theory predicts that, in addition to exhibiting particle-like behavior, particles of all sizes can also ...

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

Catalysts play an indispensable role in modern manufacturing. More than 80% of all manufactured products, from ...

A strange kind of geometry governs how particles move inside matter. Now, for the first time, physicists have uncovered its ...

A quiet revolution is taking shape in the world of physics, and it doesn’t rely on exotic particles or massive particle colliders. Instead, it begins with something much more familiar—sound.

The College of Natural Sciences welcomed more than a dozen new tenured and tenure-track faculty members in 2025.

A ‘quantum processor’ has solved a physics problem on the behaviour of magnetism in certain solids that would take hundreds of thousands of years to calculate on the largest conventional ...

Quantum annealer D-Wave’s Advantage2 was one of the processors used to simulate quantum magnetic phase transitions. (Courtesy: D-Wave Systems) D-Wave Systems has used quantum annealing to do ...

Experimental device harnesses quantum properties for efficient processing at room temperature. Engineers are working to design computers capable of handling a difficult class of tasks known as ...