Atoms accumulate at the edge with non-Hermiticity introduced through dissipation in two dimensions. Credit: HKUST A research team led by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has…
Category: Physics
Fabricating single-photon detectors from superconducting aluminum nanostrips
Illustration of the detection process in an SNSPD. Credit: Hui Zhou In quantum computers, information is often carried by single photons and picked up by structures named superconducting nanostrip single-photon…
When nature reveals its natural laws
Credit: Oliver Diekmann/TU Wien Quantum physics is a very diverse field: it describes particle collisions shortly after the Big Bang as well as electrons in solid materials or atoms far…
Secret lab developing UK’s first quantum clock
A strontium atomic clock, pictured in a lab at the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. A top-secret lab in the UK is developing the country’s first quantum…
Numerical simulations show how the classical world might emerge from the many-worlds universes of quantum mechanics
Hugh Everett III developed the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics in his 1957 PhD thesis at Princeton. He left physics after graduate school to work for the US military. Credit:…
