Abstract Catalysis refers to the possibility of enabling otherwise inaccessible quantum state transitions by supplying an auxiliary system, provided ...

More than a century before quantum mechanics was born, Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton stumbled onto an idea that would quietly foreshadow one of the deepest truths in physics. While ...

Scientists can now calculate how shared reality emerges from the strange quantum world where particles can exist in many ...

Quantum mechanics is both the most powerful theory physicists have ever devised and the most baffling. On the one hand, ...

Dr Barry R Clarke, who has lived in Oxfordshire for 37 years and spent a decade in Kidlington, is the author of Tic Tac Test, an interactive book being published by CRC Press, Taylor & Francis, on ...

Louisiana Tech University senior Jesse Webb will represent the United States this April at the NYU Abu Dhabi International Hackathon for Social Good, one of the world’s premier student quantum ...

Once quantum computers can crack modern encryption, the world’s largest cryptocurrency could become the most valuable target on Earth.

Amid fears of a looming encryption crisis from quantum computing, experts are proactively implementing robust defences, ...

Curiosity-driven research has long sparked technological transformations. A century ago, curiosity about atoms led to quantum mechanics, and eventually the transistor at the heart of modern computing.

Scientists found exotic prime numbers may play a role in black hole physics, revealing a surprising connection between number theory and the extreme environments of the universe.

Satyendra Nath Bose, a 30-year-old lecturer in colonial India, wrote a five-page paper in 1924 that solved a problem Albert ...

Global conflicts are making renewable energy more attractive, but an all-renewable grid will require solving physics problems as well as political and economic ones ...