A ball tossed into the air follows a path that classical physics can track with confidence. Shrink that ball down to the size ...

A new study by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) now bridges ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two Physical Review A papers outline how anyons could exist in one dimension, and how cold-atom experiments might spot them.

When you throw a ball in the air, the equations of classical physics will tell you exactly what path the ball will take as it ...

But last year, scientists demonstrated that quantum systems don’t always follow those patterns, finding a quantum gas that ...

A tiny silica bead, just 100 nanometers across, sits suspended in a vacuum and vibrates under the grip of laser light. Those ...

A method that relies on hitting materials with neutrons can measure how much quantum entanglement hides within them, which could enable new kinds of quantum technology ...

Researchers have shown that surprisingly large metal particles can behave according to quantum mechanics, existing in ...

Some quantum cryptographers want to find ways to keep messages secret even if the rules of quantum mechanics don’t hold. The ...

As long as there's been an internet, there's been a way to hack it. Scientists have spent decades imagining a different kind ...

DENVER — An urgent call comes in from the White House. But the recipient is skeptical: They need a way to verify that the message comes from the purported location. Quantum physics has a solution.

A pair of identical particles swapping places sounds like a small move. In quantum physics, it is a defining one. In everyday three-dimensional space, that swap only comes in two flavors. Either the ...