Long considered a serious technical challenge, superradiance could actually help quantum devices go even further.

A rewarding book that offers a cogent look at the science’s history and the second quantum revolution that’s under way ...

Quantum information theory is a field of study that examines how quantum technologies store and process information. Over the ...

The fifth state of matter—the ultracold Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC)—has been an invaluable tool in unlocking the secrets ...

As the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology draws to a close, Margaret Harris revisits some of the year’s ...

When quantum particles work together, they can produce signals far stronger than any one particle could generate alone. This ...

Physicists have coaxed particles of light into undergoing opposite transformations simultaneously, like a human turning into a werewolf as the werewolf turns into a human. In carefully engineered ...

An experiment with ultracold atoms reveals that a strongly driven quantum system doesn’t always heat up as expected. In daily ...

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 sheer pace of quantum activity from tech firms in 2025 would have been unthinkable even five years ago, says Catherine ...

In a Columbia University laboratory in New York, physicist Sebastian Will and his team have reached one of ultracold physics’ ...

A recent groundbreaking experiment in which anesthesia was administered to rats has convinced some scientists that tiny structures in the rodents’ brains are responsible for the experience of ...