The first reported demonstration of “unconditional” quantum advantage has little practical value—but that's perhaps why it ...

Welcome to this week’s update on quantum computing. Today, we look at a new limit in theory, a launch in post-quantum ...

Gabriel Lippmann received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1908 for a new method of colour photography that was never ...

A survey of Scientific American’s century of quantum coverage helps explain the enduring popularity of strange physics ...

In theory, quantum physics can bypass the hard mathematical problems at the root of modern encryption. A new proof shows how.

"We have found a surprisingly simple solution to an important problem in physics," says Prof. Jens Eisert, a theoretical physicist at Freie Universität Berlin and HZB. "Our results provide a solid ...

Using a chain of atoms in single file to simulate the event horizon of a black hole, a team of physicists in 2022 observed ...

Physicists construct theories to describe nature. Let us explain it through an analogy with something that we can do in our everyday life, like going on a hike in the mountains. To avoid getting lost, ...

Theoretical chemists have developed a theory that can predict the threshold at which quantum dynamics switches from 'orderly' to 'random,' as shown through research using large-scale computations on ...

A method known as quantum key distribution has long held the promise of communication security unattainable in conventional cryptography. An international team of scientists has now demonstrated ...