Lifting the veil of topological censorship

Schematic picture of the experimental setup showing a Chern insulator (purple) with attached electrodes (gold) and a SQUID magnetometer (shown as a loop on top of the insulator), which allows…

A versatile approach to realize quantum-enhanced metrology with large Fock states

Team studies the emergence of fluctuating hydrodynamics in chaotic quantum systems

Fluorescence images of a quantum many-body system consisting of cesium atoms in an optical lattice in an initial ordered configuration (left) and a time-evolved random configuration. By studying the growth…

Controlling light while measuring trapped ion qubits

Physicists use quantum correlations of photon pairs to hide images from standard cameras

Fig. 1. Experimental results. a, Experimental setup. b, Intensity image on the camera and c, correlation image. The intensity image reveals no information about the object, which can nevertheless be…

Even the heaviest particles experience the usual quantum weirdness, new experiment shows

Mysteries of the bizarre ‘pseudogap’ in quantum physics finally untangled

An illustration of colored balls on a chessboard-like grid similar to the Hubbard model. Credit: Lucy Reading-Ikkanda/Simons Foundation By cleverly applying a computational technique, scientists have made a breakthrough in…

Topological quantum computers a step closer with new method to ‘split’ electrons

Double-slit experiment. Credit: University College Dublin The topological quantum computer still exists only in theory but, if possible, would be the most stable and powerful computing machine in the world.…

Were Bohr and von Neumann really in conflict over quantum measurements?

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Analysis suggests that the two pioneers of quantum mechanics, Niels Bohr and John von Neumann, may have had more similar views than previously thought regarding the…

LHC experiments observe quantum entanglement at the highest energy yet