Why does nature love spirals? The link to entropy

Credit: Ahmed Farag Ali and Aneta Wojnar There are moments in the history of human thought when a simple realization transforms our understanding of reality. A moment when chaos reveals…

Boosting the response speed of quantum LEDs via an excitation memory effect

Image of an emitting micro-QLED (approximately 60 microns in diameter) that demonstrates fast response capabilities. Credit: Lu et al. Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are widely used electroluminescent devices that emit light…

Olympicene molecular chains create quantum spin systems with spintronics applications

Where quantum theory and the theory of relativity meet

Metasurfaces entangle light and information in new study

Polarization and holographic information become entangled in a quantum hologram. Holographic letters demonstrate entanglement through polarization of paired photons. By selecting different polarizer orientations for one photon, specific letters in…

Topological insulator nanowires reveal superconducting effect, bringing topological quantum computing closer to reality

Non-local processes involving Cooper pairs and conductance matrix as a function of VL and VR. Credit: Nature Physics (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-02806-y “This is the first study to explore how Andreev…

Quantum entanglement sensors could test quantum gravity

Artist’s concept of SUPREME-GQ. Credit: S. Shahriar / NASA Ask almost any physicist what the most frustrating problem is in modern-day physics, and they will likely say the discrepancy between…

Metasurface technology offers a compact way to generate multiphoton entanglement

Generating multiphoton entanglement with a tiny metasurface. Credit: Peking University Quantum information processing is a field that relies on the entanglement of multiple photons to process vast amounts of information.…

Laser light made into a supersolid for the first time

Uncovering Einstein’s relativity in an interacting atomic playground

An optical lattice clock embedded in the curved spacetime formed by the earth’s gravity. Dynamical interplay between photon-mediated interactions and gravitational redshift can lead to entanglement generation and frequency synchronization…