An analog-digital approach to quantum simulation could lay the foundations for the next generation of supercomputers to ...

Philip Ball looks at how a little-known paper by Niels Bohr demonstrates the turmoil in physics on the brink of quantum ...

For over a century, quantum mechanics and Einstein’s general relativity have stood as the cornerstones of modern physics, yet ...

The famous second law of thermodynamics says that the world gets more and more disordered when random chance is at play. Or, ...

Even in the fuzzy, probabilistic world of quantum physics, though, there’s a limit on how small you can go. Both ...

Physicists have performed a simulation they say sheds new light on an elusive phenomenon that could determine the ultimate ...

Quantum physics underlies technologies from the laser to the smartphone. The International Year of Quantum marks a century of scientific developments.

A new theoretical approach is proposed to explain the nature of the well-known narrow and intense optical J-band of J-aggregates of polymethine dyes. The old approach proposed by Franck and Teller in ...

Quantum computing has the potential of being the next big innovation. At the right size and the right price, it might even be ...

Physicists have built a new type of digital-analogue quantum simulator in Google’s laboratory, which can be used to study ...