Almost exactly 200 years ago, French physicist Sadi Carnot determined the maximum efficiency of heat engines. The Carnot ...

"Dark photon" theory says light's interference patterns may emerge from quantum particles, not waves, upending centuries of ...

Quantum walks sound abstract, but they sit at the center of a very concrete race: who will harness quantum mechanics to solve problems that overwhelm today’s most powerful supercomputers. Instead of ...

Quantum computing continues to draw investor interest because it combines long-term technological ambition with the potential for real commercial disruption. While the industry is still in its early ...

Artificial intelligence is sliding into physics classrooms so smoothly that it can feel like a harmless upgrade rather than a ...

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Most of today's quantum computers rely on qubits with Josephson junctions that work for now but likely won't scale as needed ...

When scientists repeatedly drove a strongly interacting quantum system with laser “kicks,” they expected it to heat up and ...

Stevens Institute, Hoboken, reports the universal identity P²+K²=1, uniting polarization with entanglement across setups and ...

Controlling light is an important technological challenge—not just at the large scale of optics in microscopes and telescopes ...

Researchers from the Faculty of Engineering at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a significant discovery regarding ...