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While William Rowan Hamilton isn’t a household name like, say, Einstein or Hawking, he might have been. It turns out the ...

Astrophysicist Paul Sutter explains Quantum Mechanics - the body of scientific laws that describe the wacky behavior of photons, electrons and the other particles that make up the universe.

The measurement problem in quantum mechanics looks at how an experimental outcome changes, simply by observing it.

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In an article published in Communications Physics, researchers from the Université libre de Bruxelles and the Institute for ...

Recent advancements in quantum physics have taken a significant leap forward with the successful demonstration of quantum ...

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Two experiments with different quantum computers showcase their growing ability to simulate materials and quantum matter that ...

A hidden world of quantum metrologists ensure that everyday devices perform safely and correctly, but their work is never ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the ...