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Quantum entanglement sensors could test quantum gravity

Ask almost any physicist what the most frustrating problem is in modern-day physics, and they will likely say the discrepancy between general relativity and quantum mechanics. That discrepancy has been a thorn in the side ...

Quantum mechanics: Hypercomplex, or 'just' complex?

Today, physicists are still asking themselves whether quantum mechanics needs hypercomplex numbers. FAU researchers Ece Ipek Saruhan, Prof. Dr. Joachim von Zanthier and Dr. Marc Oliver Pleinert have been investigating this ...

Unlocking the secrets of phase transitions in quantum hardware

Phase transitions, like water freezing into ice, are a familiar part of our world. But in quantum systems, they can behave even more dramatically, with quantum properties such as Heisenberg uncertainty playing a central role. ...

Laser light made into a supersolid for the first time

A small international team of nanotechnologists, engineers and physicists has developed a way to force laser light into becoming a supersolid. Their paper is published in the journal Nature. The editors at Nature have published ...

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Unraveling the origin of extremely bright quantum emitters

Many next-generation quantum devices rely on single-photon emitters based on optically active defects in solids, known as color centers. Understanding their properties is fundamental to developing novel quantum technologies.

How Schrödinger's cat could help improve quantum computers

Quantum computers could be made with fewer overall components, thanks to technology inspired by Schrödinger's cat. A team of researchers from Amazon Web Services has used "bosonic cat qubits," to improve the ability of quantum ...

Engineers achieve multiplexing entanglement in quantum network

Laying the groundwork for quantum communication systems of the future, engineers at Caltech have demonstrated the successful operation of a quantum network of two nodes, each containing multiple quantum bits, or qubits—the ...

Hofstadter's butterfly: Quantum fractal patterns visualized

A team of scientists from Princeton University has measured the energies of electrons in a new class of quantum materials and has found them to follow a fractal pattern. Fractals are self-repeating patterns that occur on ...

Time interfaces: The gateway to four-dimensional quantum optics

A new study from the University of Eastern Finland (UEF) explores the behavior of photons, the elementary particles of light, as they encounter boundaries where material properties change rapidly over time. This research ...

A completely new type of microscopy based on quantum sensors

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have invented an entirely new field of microscopy called nuclear spin microscopy. The team can visualize magnetic signals of nuclear magnetic resonance with a microscope. ...

Optical fiber link to make CERN more on time than ever

A new optical fiber link between CERN and Paris will provide the Laboratory with an accurate frequency reference, enhancing precision and supporting experiments like ALPHA in their search for matter–antimatter differences.