Optical system achieves terabit-per-second capacity and integrates quantum cryptography for long-term security

Electrons that can’t find the exit

How can a frog escape from a box? It needs to have enough energy—and it has to find the exit. Credit: Vienna University of Technology What happens when electrons leave…

Simplified Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model simulated on trapped-ion quantum computer

Quantinuum researchers assemble an ultra-high vacuum chamber that keeps the QPU in a near-Earth orbit-like environment, virtually free of unwanted particles. Credit: Quantinuum. The simulation of strongly interacting many-body systems…

Quantum networks bring new precision to dark matter searches

Old-school material could power quantum computing and cut data center energy use

Quantum radio antenna uses Rydberg states for sensitive, all-optical signal detection

Experimental setup for controlling the quantum radio antenna. Credit: Michal Parniak, University of Warsaw A team from the Faculty of Physics and the Center for Quantum Optical Technologies at the…

Triplets born from proton collisions found to be correlated with each other

In collisions of counter-propagating proton beams, hadronisation processes can be studied. Detectors register secondary particles produced directly in the collision region or from the decays of long-lived particles within the…

Amplifying collective light emission with atomic interactions

Visualization of atoms placed in an optical cavity, interacting with each other as well as with the light mode. Credit: Yao Wang, Emory University A team of physicists from the…

Quantum crystals offer a blueprint for the future of computing and chemistry

Scientists at Auburn University created a new type of material where electrons can move freely across a solid surface. By arranging these electrons in different patterns, the material could one…

Inside the 2025 Nobel Prize in physics