Researchers at UBC have found a way to mimic the elusive Schwinger effect using superfluid helium, where vortex pairs appear ...

Lauda and his colleagues solve some of the problems with topological qubits by using a class of theoretical particles they ...

Recent progress on both analog and digital simulations of quantum fields foreshadows a future in which quantum computers ...

The researchers extended existing theoretical models to account for quantum fluctuations and applied these models to flowing condensates, discovering stable density and velocity fluctuation patterns ...

Aaron Lauda has been exploring an area of mathematics that most physicists have seen little use for, wondering if it might have practical applications. In a twist even he didn’t expect, it turns out ...

This is what fun looks like for a particular set of theoretical chemists driven to solve extremely difficult problems: Deciding whether the electromagnetic fields in molecular polaritons should be ...

We’re celebrating 180 years of Scientific American. Explore our legacy of discovery and look ahead to the future. If there is a beginning time point for the Age of Scientific Reversal, it may be ...

The sci-fi TV series Star Trek has captivated audiences since it first aired, blending real-life science with fiction in ways ...

In a major breakthrough, scientists have observed a strange and previously theoretical form of light — known as negative light. This marks the first time in human history that such a phenomenon has ...

A new study addresses a foundational problem in the theory of driven quantum matter by extending the Středa formula to ...

Around the world, governments, industries, and technology providers are preparing for the migration to post-quantum cryptography (PQC). Standards bodies such as NIST in the United States and ENISA in ...

Nikhil Malvankar, a Mumbai-born professor at Yale has blended biology and quantum mechanics to uncover a microbial mystery ...