Technique lays the groundwork for neutral-atom quantum computers with more than 100 000 qubits, say physicists ...

Researchers have uncovered how atoms subtly rearrange themselves for up to a trillionth of a second before releasing ...

A cluster of 7,000 sodium atoms has just been coaxed into behaving as a single, ghostly wave, stretching quantum weirdness ...

Most people know that you can't see atoms... or can you? With this special microscope, scientists actually can! In the late ...

Physicists have watched a quantum fluid do something once thought almost impossible: stop moving. In experiments with ...

The Pauli exclusion principle is a cornerstone of the Standard Model of particle physics and is essential for the structure ...

A microscopic clump of sodium has become the largest object ever to be observed as a wave, improving upon previous records by ...

A doctoral student recreated a tiny piece of the universe in a bottle to investigate the chemistry that led to life on Earth.

A new light-based breakthrough could help quantum computers finally scale up. Stanford researchers created miniature optical cavities that efficiently collect light from individual atoms, allowing ...

While quantum computers continue to slowly grind towards usefulness, some are pursuing a different approach—analog quantum ...

Can a single particle have a temperature? It may seem impossible with our standard understanding of temperature, but ...

You can tell a lot about a material based on the type of light shining at it: Optical light illuminates a material's surface, ...