Collective behavior is an unusual phenomenon in condensed-matter physics. When quantum spins interact together as a system, ...

Quantum materials can behave in surprising ways when many tiny spins act together, producing effects that don’t exist in ...

By bringing the long-standing and opposing views of quantum mechanics together to form a single cohesive theory, a research ...

John Clarke, Michel H Devoret and John M. Martinis are announced this year's Nobel Prize winners in Physics, by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences at a press conference in Stockhom, Sweden October ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: Atomic clocks will only see a loss of 1 second in accuracy over a ...

Forgetting feels like a failure of attention, but physics treats it as a fundamental process with a measurable price. At the smallest scales, erasing information is not free, it consumes energy and ...

Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for research on the strange behavior of subatomic particles called quantum tunneling that enabled the ultra-sensitive measurements achieved by ...