The parity-identification problem fits naturally into this landscape. Parity is a global property, insensitive to most local details. In this respect, it resembles many other quantities studied in ...
Physicists have long struggled to unite quantum mechanics—the theory governing tiny particles—with Einstein’s theory of ...
Researchers in the US have demonstrated how quantum entanglement could be used to detect optical signals from astronomical ...
Rydberg atoms are atoms with one or more outer electrons excited to very high energy levels, which interact very strongly with each other. These atoms are widely used to run quantum simulations and ...
Over 85 years after it began, the Einstein-Bohr debate remains the most consequential intellectual rivalry in modern science ...
A newly derived “q-desic” equation suggests that quantum effects may subtly alter particle trajectories across the universe.
Shaped by a different biology or culture, other intelligent civilisations – if they’re out there – might understand the ...
Physicist Paul Davies looks back at the past century of quantum mechanics—the most disruptive theory in the history of modern science.
In 1974, physicist Stephen Hawking described the potential for tiny, primordial black holes that existed at the dawn of time ...
Oracle-based quantum algorithms cannot use deep loops because quantum states exist only as mathematical amplitudes in Hilbert space with no physical substrate. Criticall ...
Those that solve artificially simplified problems where quantum advantage is meaningless. Those that provide no genuine quantum advantage when all costs are properly accounted for. This critique is ...
Paradoxes, time loops, and multiverses; these science fiction novels  are the gold standard of time travel. From H.G. Wells ...