A team of physicists affiliated with multiple institutions in China has measured a pulse of light in 37 dimensions. In their ...

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

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 ...

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

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

New research shows that the second law of thermodynamics, which states entropy increases over time, also applies to closed ...

Entropy always increases, but in quantum systems, traditional entropy measures seem constant. TU Wien researchers resolved this paradox by considering Shannon entropy, which accounts for the ...

Michelle Lollie transitioned from a career in finance to developing quantum optical systems in industry. She talks to Tushna Commissariat about the American Physical Society (APS) Bridge Program; as ...

A new theoretical approach is proposed to explain the nature of the well-known narrow and intense optical J-band of ...

Quantum computing has been on the horizon for what feels like decades. But with the explosion of artificial intelligence (AI) ...

But a team of physicists has now taken a significant step forward in validating string theory by using an innovative mathematical ... Physics: Current Generated by the Quantum Hall Effect Has ...