Quantum effects are physical phenomena that cannot be explained accurately with classical mechanics alone. They arise from the wave-like and probabilistic behavior of matter and light: energy levels ...

The technology could support advances in high-speed communication systems, sensing tools, biological materials, and medical technologies.

A quiet revolution is taking shape in the world of physics, and it doesn’t rely on exotic particles or massive particle colliders. Instead, it begins with something much more familiar—sound.

Scientists have shown that Barkhausen noise can be produced not only through traditional, or classical means, but through quantum mechanical effects. The research represents an advance in fundamental ...

Researchers have proposed a new way of using quantum light to 'see' quantum sound. A new paper reveals the quantum-mechanical interplay between vibrations and particles of light, known as photons, in ...

The quantum ground state of an acoustic wave of a certain frequency can be reached by completely cooling the system. In this way, the number of quantum particles, the so-called acoustic phonons, which ...

Sound is usually treated as the most familiar of physical phenomena, the background noise of daily life rather than a frontier of fundamental physics. Yet in laboratories around the world, carefully ...

A once-theoretical quantum interaction has been achieved in a breakthrough laboratory experiment by University of Oxford researchers.

For decades, time moved in one direction, now a growing number of quantum experiments are raising the unsettling possibility that the order of events may not be as fixed as humans once believed. For ...

Researchers at the University of East Anglia have proposed a new way of using quantum light to ‘see’ quantum sound. A new paper published today reveals the quantum-mechanical interplay between ...