For over 100 years, two theories have shaped our understanding of the universe: quantum mechanics and Einstein’s general ...

Landauer's principle is a thermodynamics concept also relevant in information theory, which states that erasing one bit of ...

Researchers at TU Wien and FU Berlin have, for the first time, measured what happens when quantum information is lost, ...

In principle, it can be reconstructed. In quantum physics, this is also the case in principle—but only until the quantum system comes into contact with its environment.

Quantum field theory (QFT) provides a comprehensive framework for describing the fundamental interactions of matter and radiation. In the context of atom‐field interactions, QFT elucidates how ...

Sitting in an office at QuEra Computing’s Boston headquarters, Yuval Boger was talking about the recent advancements made in quantum computing that are ...

In a dark corner of a guest house in Helgoland, a diary by Werner Heisenberg has been discovered, describing how he developed ...

The Big Bang theory is wrong and the universe is sitting inside a black hole, scientists have suggested. Since the 1930s – when Belgian theoretical physicist Georges Lemaitre proposed the universe ...

As few as five electrons in a semiconductor can exhibit collective behaviour, forming a “Coulomb liquid”, according to ...

He developed technologies that helped pave the way for the Global Positioning System and made foundational discoveries that ...

The spiritual view of life is trapped between two opposite words, physics and metaphysics, the study of the physical world and the study of what might lie beyond the physical. Given a choice ...

Experts believe the universe may have a built-in 'self-destruct button' called false vacuum decay which could destroy the ...