For the first time, an international team of scientists has experimentally simulated spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) at zero temperature using a superconducting quantum processor. This achievement ...

Quantum computers still face a major hurdle on their pathway to practical use cases: their limited ability to correct the ...

Quantum computing can boost the accuracy of battery material simulations, optimize power grid flows and enhance the design of ...

By making electrons behave as waves, a collaboration of researchers from Israel and China has produced light with quantum effects, a necessary step towards controlling quantum computers ...

A novel equation tracks the time evolution of an open quantum system’s topology Quantum systems tend to become less “quantum-y” as they interact with their environment. So when developing a ...

Nearly 50 years ago, physicists floated a bold idea: our universe might be stuck in a false vacuum. This state feels stable, ...