“The theoretical framework we developed explains how quasiparticles emerge in systems with an extremely heavy impurity, ...

Henry Yuen is developing a new mathematical language to describe problems whose inputs and outputs aren’t ordinary numbers.

Quantum mechanics replaced the clockwork certainty of classical physics with something far stranger: a framework in which ...

Physicists at Heidelberg University have developed a new theory that finally unites two long-standing and seemingly ...

At the smallest scales of nature, the rules of the world shift in ways that can feel unsettling and beautiful at the same ...

They ask us to believe, for example, that the world we experience is fundamentally divided from the subatomic realm it’s built from. Or that there is a wild proliferation of parallel universes, or ...

A series of quantum physics experiments and theoretical papers now suggest that heat can flow spontaneously from a cold object to a hot one, provided the right quantum conditions are in place. This ...

Quantum key distribution promises ultra-secure communication by using the strange rules of quantum physics to detect eavesdroppers instantly. But even the most secure quantum link can falter if the ...

If true, the idea would blow past one of physics’ most sacred limits: that parallel versions of reality can never talk to ...

In the pantheon of modern physics, few figures can match the quiet authority of Gerard ’t Hooft. The theoretical physicist, now a professor emeritus at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, has spent ...

The magnetic moment of the muon is an important precision parameter for putting the Standard Model of particle physics to the test. After years of work, the research group led by Professor Hartmut ...