Physicists working at the world’s largest gravitational wave observatory have cooled their apparatus to near absolute zero in a bid to explore the so-called "quantum limit," or the point at which the ...

Objects that obey the rules of quantum mechanics behave very differently from those in the familiar world around us. That difference leads to an obvious question: is it possible to get an everyday ...

Oscillating object: the new protocol evaluates the Leggett–Garg inequality without the need for creating a macroscopic quantum state. (Courtesy: Shutterstock ...

Physicists are exploring a quantum-mechanical approach to making smaller radio wave detectors. Physicists have created a new type of radar that could help improve underground imaging, using a cloud of ...

Quantum delocalization In an artistic rendering, a silica nanoparticle is held by laser light. The uncertainty in the particle’s position spreads and recompresses (blue trajectories), illustrating ...

The universe, as seen through the lens of quantum mechanics, is a noisy, crackling space where particles blink constantly in and out of existence, creating a background of quantum noise whose effects ...