For more than 40 years, scientists have known that the quantum Hall effect impacts electrons in strong magnetic fields, but it turns out light also follows the fundamental phenomenon.

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Quantum computing is a revolutionary form of computing that uses the principles of quantum mechanics to perform calculations that would be infeasible or impossible for classical computers. Unlike ...

The errors that quantum computers make are holding the technology back. But recent progress in quantum error correction has ...

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An international team of physicists has uncovered a subtle but important twist in how “memory” works in quantum systems.

Quantum mechanics is one of the most successful theories in science — and makes much of modern life possible. Technologies ranging from computer chips to medical-imaging machines rely on the ...

The correlation of particles separated by distance so that what happens to one affects the other. For decades, quantum entanglement has been a major topic in quantum mechanics. It has always been a ...

Governments have no monopoly on quantum science, meaning that a breakthrough could come as a complete surprise—and that its ...