An international collaboration sheds new light on the relationship between quantum theory and thermodynamics. The research group demonstrated that while the laws of quantum theory alone do not ...

For over a century, the Maxwell’s Demon paradox has haunted physics. This thought experiment suggests that a tiny, ...

Protons are far from simple particles — they are swirling cauldrons of quarks, gluons, and quantum entanglement. Scientists ...

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

It is one of the most important laws of nature that we know: The famous second law of thermodynamics says that the world gets ...

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

Quantum computers process multiple possibilities at once, unlike traditional computers. Quantum properties like entanglement ...

A new study published in Scientific Reports simulates particle creation in an expanding universe using IBM quantum computers, ...

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

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

Emmy Noether showed that fundamental physical laws are just a consequence of simple symmetries. A century later, her insights ...