It would be an ugly experience to see our world through the eyes of a migratory bird. Something about their visual system allows them to ‘see’ our planet’s magnetic field, a clever trick of quantum physics and biochemistry that helps them find vast distances. Now, for the first time, scientists …
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We move forward in our universe with the confidence of a giant by giving a little thought to the fact that reality spreads bubbles with uncertainty. But physicists have given a vague reminder that our macroscopic world is also subject to the laws of quantum physics – successfully trapping millimeter-sized …
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The existence of time crystals – a particularly fascinating state of matter – was confirmed only a few short years ago, but physicists have already made a pretty big breakthrough: they have induced an interaction and observed between two time crystals. In a superfluid helium-3, crystals exchange quasi-particles twice without …
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One of the main challenges in turning quantum technology from potential to reality is getting superfine quantum states to last longer than a few milliseconds – and scientists are simply lifting the bar by a factor of about 10,000. They did this by tackling what is called decoherence: that is, …
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This stunning image captured last year by physicists at the University of Glasgow in Scotland is the first photo of quantum entanglement, a phenomenon so bizarre that physicist Albert Einstein described it as a “ creepy action at a distance. ” It may not sound like much, but just stop …
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