Credit: Columbia University Blink and you might miss it, but if you keep your eye on the monitors in professor Sebastian Will’s lab, you’ll catch a series of single-second flashes…
Category: Quantum Physics
Scientists build first self-illuminating biosensor
Illustration of the self-illuminating biosensor: A metasurface of gold nanowires drives quantum light emission and concentrates the resulting light waves to detect biomolecules. Credit: 2025 Ella Maru Studio/BIOS EPFL CC…
Researchers confirm fundamental conservation laws at the quantum level
Schematic of a single photon with zero angular momentum (green) splitting into two photons (red) with either zero or opposite angular momenta (sketched through the spatially varying color), which adds…
Topological insulators boost ultra-thin magnet strength by 20% for next-gen electronics
Polarized neutron reflectometry of Cr2Te3 thin films and their heterostrucutres with (Bi,Sb)2Te3. Credit: Reports on Progress in Physics (2025). DOI: 10.1088/1361-6633/add9c5 “This is like giving the magnet a boost,” explains…
Universal embezzlers naturally emerge in critical fermion systems, study finds
A bipartite quantum system obtained by dividing fermion chain into left and right half-chains. The squares indicate potential locations for Fermionic particles in a discrete lattice. Credit: van Luijk, Stottmeister…
New theory proposes time has three dimensions, with space as a secondary effect
Credit: AI-generated image Time, not space plus time, might be the single fundamental property in which all physical phenomena occur, according to a new theory by a University of Alaska…
Scientists demonstrate unconditional exponential quantum scaling advantage using two 127-qubit computers
Interior shot of a quantum computer with an IBM Eagle processor. Credit: IBM Quantum computers have the potential to speed up computation, help design new medicines, break codes, and discover…
