You are looking for
Advanced search
Computer Scientists Prove That Heat Destroys Quantum Entanglement
...physics compete with the laws of thermodynamics, and things get messy. At very low temperatures, entanglement can spread over long distances, enveloping many atoms and giving rise to strange phenomena...
Why This Universe? A New Calculation Suggests Our Cosmos Is Typical.
...for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada, for the same reason that air spreads evenly throughout a room: Weirder options are conceivable, but exceedingly improbable. The universe “may seem extremely fine-tuned,...
Inside the Knotty World of ‘Anyon’ Particles
A new class of quantum particle is about to emerge from the tangled considerations of quantum statistics. [No Caption] I. Prior to the emergence of quantum mechanics, fundamental physics was...
How the Hidden Higgs Could Reveal Our Universe’s Dark Sector
...particle physics. But it’s possible that the LHC has been producing such pivotal new particles all along, and that we’re just not seeing them. “The core of the story,” said...
‘Quantum Atmospheres’ May Reveal Secrets of Matter
...a ceramic-like insulator. Topological insulators have drawn attention for their unusual physics as well as for their potential use in quantum computers and so-called spintronic devices, which utilize electrons’ spins...
Real-Life Schrödinger’s Cats Probe the Boundary of the Quantum World
...same, these exotic objects are worth heeding, because they show with unprecedented clarity that quantum mechanics is not just the physics of the extremely small. “Schrödinger’s kittens,” loosely speaking, are...
High-Temperature Superconductivity Understood at Last
...in a particular direction, like a quantum-size magnet. The late Philip Anderson, an American Nobel laureate and all-around legend in condensed matter physics, put forth a theory just months after...
Why Gravity Is Not Like the Other Forces
...these possibilities remain conjectural and incompletely understood. A working quantum theory of gravity is perhaps the loftiest goal in physics today. What is it that makes gravity unique? What’s different...
Neutrinos Suggest Solution to Mystery of Universe’s Existence
...Model of particle physics, every particle has a mirror-image particle that carries the opposite electrical charge — an antimatter particle. When matter and antimatter particles collide, they annihilate in a...