A quiet transformation is unfolding in the way scientists design the materials that power modern technology. From faster ...

Conservation laws are central to our understanding of the universe, and now scientists have expanded our understanding of these laws in quantum mechanics. A conservation law in physics describes the ...

Quantum computing is in its infancy, but its potential has sparked intense exploration. This article examines three major trajectories that will shape the future of quantum computing: the gate-based ...

Landauer's principle is a thermodynamics concept also relevant in information theory, which states that erasing one bit of information from an information system results in the dissipation of at least ...

Some quantum cryptographers want to find ways to keep messages secret even if the rules of quantum mechanics don’t hold. The recently rediscovered idea of quantum jamming complicates things. For the ...

Olival Freire Jr is a professor of physics and the history of physics at the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. What makes matter stable? Why are atoms as they are? Why do different materials vary ...

The year 2025 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of quantum mechanics. In the century since the field’s inception, scientists and engineers have used quantum mechanics to create technologies ...

Researchers have proven that a fundamental law of physics applies in the quantum realm. The principle of least action dictates that objects will (unless interfered with) always move along the route ...

Indian official says business will drive India-US projects in AI, semiconductors, quantum technologies and critical minerals, turning policy into outcomes.

The Heisenberg uncertainty principle puts a limit on how precisely we can measure certain properties of quantum objects. But researchers may have found a way to bypass this limitation using a quantum ...