Improving randomness may be the key to more powerful quantum computers

The circuit construction used to prove the paper’s main result. Each block represents a quantum circuit acting on a small patch of the entire system. Credit: Thomas Schuster, Jonas Haferkamp,…

Physicists create tunable system for enhanced quantum sensing

A table top experiment typical of the setup. The size is more or less equal to the size of an ordinary dining table. Credit: Ola Jakup Joensen Researchers at the…

Quantum equivalent of thermodynamics’ second law discovered for entanglement manipulation

Illustration of an entanglement battery. The battery allows reversible interconversion between any two entangled states. Credit: American Physical Society Just over 200 years after French engineer and physicist Sadi Carnot…

Quantum computer simulates spontaneous symmetry breaking at zero temperature

Nonlinear currents emerge in symmetry-broken materials

Artistic representation of the breakdown of Ohm’s law and the resulting nonlinear effects in a non-centrosymmetric crystal. Credit: Elhuyar Fundazioa In a review just published in Nature Materials, researchers take…

Strong magnetic fields flip angular momentum dynamics in magnetovortical matter

Credit: Tokyo University of Science Angular momentum is a fundamental quantity in physics that describes the rotational motion of objects. In quantum physics, it encompasses both the intrinsic spin of…

Quantum protocol achieves Heisenberg-limited measurement precision with robust spin states

Quantum wavepacket dynamics depicting the collective motion of an ensemble of identical spins subject to periodic modulation in their interaction strength. Panels (b) and (c) indicate the generation of highly…

Companies are racing to develop the first useful quantum computer—ultracold neutral atoms could be the key

Credit: CC0 Public Domain The race to build the first useful quantum computer is on and may revolutionize the world with brand new capabilities, from medicine to freight logistics. Tech…

New Technique for Understanding the Nature of Neutrinos Demonstrates an Important Technological Milestone

The Science Newswise — The nature of the neutrino’s mass is no small matter. It is directly connected with major questions in nuclear physics, particle physics, cosmology, and the origins of matter in the…

Discovery of ‘Mini Halo’ Points to How the Early Universe Was Formed

Newswise — Astronomers have uncovered a vast cloud of energetic particles — a ‘mini halo’ —  surrounding one of the most distant galaxy clusters ever observed, marking a major step…