Large-scale quantum computers are waiting in the wings. One of the main reasons we don't have them yet is because quantum ...

Over the past decades, quantum scientists have introduced various technologies that operate leveraging quantum mechanical ...

Physicists affiliated with Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Joint Quantum Institute, NIST, and the University of Maryland have proposed a feedback-driven quantum engine that can statistically ...

Physicists at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg have identified a hidden geometric structure reaching 48 ...

Blinking dots Photoluminescence image of individual quantum dots used in the experiment. Under time-dependent driving, the ...

Scientists have achieved a historic first using lasers to study electron behaviour, revealing new insights into how light ...

Quantum mechanical effects such as radioactive decay, or more generally: 'tunneling', display intriguing mathematical patterns. Researchers now show that a 40-year-old mathematical discovery can be ...

Now, some folks are looking at quantum physics, specifically something called quantum entanglement, to see if it offers any ...

Quantum entanglement can link two objects even when they are separated by extremely large distances. But a new study has found a limit at which such quantum correlations stop – and surprisingly, ...

We’re celebrating 180 years of Scientific American. Explore our legacy of discovery and look ahead to the future. This year is the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, according to ...