(Nanowerk News) “Nature likes symmetries and so do we. The foundation of our experiments is an innovative engineering trick where we control and make use of the available symmetries in a system which ...

Physicists have long relied on elegant theorems to connect the abstract math of quantum theory with the tangible behavior of ...

This month, Symmetry presents a series of articles on the past, present and future of quantum research—and its many connections to particle physics, astrophysics and computing. On July 25, 2018, a ...

Researchers have demonstrated a novel concept for exciting and probing coherent phonons in crystals of a transiently broken symmetry. The key of this concept lies in reducing the symmetry of a crystal ...

Physicists have built a quantum gas that behaves nothing like the substances we are used to, and that is exactly why it is ...

Uncertainty, entanglement, spooky action: On the quantum scale, the universe doesn’t work the way you might expect. While driving down the highway, physicist Werner Heisenberg is stopped by a police ...

For the first time, an international team of scientists has experimentally simulated spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) at zero temperature using a superconducting quantum processor. This achievement ...

As global demand for faster computing and sustainable energy solutions rises, the need for powerful yet energy-efficient electronic devices grows more urgent. From smartphones and data centers to ...

When the ancient Incas wanted to archive tax and census records, they used a device made up of a number of strings called a quipu, which encoded the data in knots. Fast-forward several hundred years, ...