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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Physicists have built a new type of digital-analogue quantum simulator, which can be used to study physical processes with ...

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

The year was 1900 and Max Planck was a young physicist working on the problem of blackbody radiation . This was an intense ...