Quantum technology has spent more than a century in the lab, but the commercial spark is finally catching. Hardware is maturing, investors are piling in, and early real world deployments are starting ...

Hardy's paradox, created in 1992, hinted at a scenario haunting the edges of quantum physics. It presented a thought ...

Physicists in China have brought one of Einstein’s thought experiments into reality—but not quite with the outcome he hoped for.

Now, two unrelated-but-similar experiments confirm that, in a double-slit experiment, detection of a photon’s path (its ...

A team of physicists affiliated with multiple institutions in China has measured a pulse of light in 37 dimensions. In their paper published in Science Advances, the group explains that their ...

In the life sciences and healthcare industries, the speed of innovation impacts how soon new products, medications and ...

Amid some scepticism, many say the machines can now achieve results beyond the capability of traditional computers ...

John Clarke, Michel H Devoret and John M. Martinis are announced this year's Nobel Prize winners in Physics, by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences at a press conference in Stockhom, Sweden October ...

Quantum theory and Einstein's theory of general relativity are two of the greatest successes in modern physics. Each works ...

At first glance, quantum mechanics might seem strange or even impossible. That’s because our everyday experiences of the laws of physics are very different from how matter and energy behave at the ...

Quantum computing is slowly entering the mainstream, as more people discuss the technology and its potential within ...