The planar Hall effect is a tabletop diagnostic tool for special quantum properties useful in basic research and ...

Using a conventional computer and cutting-edge mathematical tools and code, physicists at the Center for Computational Quantum Physics (CCQ) at the Simons Foundation's Flatiron Institute and ...

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Swapping materials in its Majorana 2 chip boosted the effectiveness of quantum bits that rely on the math of topology to ...

Photo of the experimental setup to couple MWs to N- 𝑉⁢s using grape dimers. A stripped optical fiber with N- 𝑉 spins, cantilevered from a rod, lies between two grapes. The grapes were positioned on ...

Physics is considered a cold, hard science – but it will transform your life if you view it with a bit more subjectivity, ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In the fall of 2022, a Princeton University graduate student named Carolina Figueiredo stumbled onto a massive coincidence. She ...

John von Neumann came about as close as humanly possible to embodying the Platonic ideal of a genius. Conversant in ancient Greek by age 6, the Hungarian made significant mathematical advances in his ...

Professor Adam Sikora is helping advance and popularize the growing field of quantum topology, which connects topology and geometry with quantum physics through surprising cross-fertilization of ideas ...

A new proposal makes the case that paraparticles — a new category of quantum particle — could be created in exotic materials. Wang was eager to develop the accidental discovery into a full theory of ...