Try as they might, scientists can’t truly rid a space or an object of its energy. But what “zero-point energy” really means ...

Instead of superconducting circuits cooled to near absolute zero, photonic systems use light particles as qubits.

Scientists have worked hard to make things as cold as possible, and they have gotten down to 0.00000000004 K, but getting rid ...

The fifth state of matter—the ultracold Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC)—has been an invaluable tool in unlocking the secrets ...

When scientists repeatedly drove a strongly interacting quantum system with laser “kicks,” they expected it to heat up and ...

What I am looking at is not just the most powerful computer in the world, but technology pivotal to financial security, ...

In the future, quantum computers are anticipated to solve problems once thought unsolvable, from predicting the course of ...

A new study in Nature Physics has turned an old problem on its head by reporting a way to use the noisy interactions between ...

Zero-point energy sits at a strange crossroads between hard physics and science fiction, promising limitless power from the ...

A deeply disturbing and controversial line of thinking has emerged within the physics community. It's the idea that we are reaching the absolute limit of what we can understand about the world around ...

Advanced quantum detectors designed at Texas A&M University are reinventing the search for dark matter, an unseen force that ...

Photonic says it’s trying to build the world’s first highly scalable fault-tolerant quantum computer. It’s doing so with a ...