Fraunhofer ILT in Aachen has developed a highly complex laser-optical system for a quantum computer currently under construction at the 5th Institute of Physics at the University of Stuttgart. This ...

In a new study published in Nature Physics, researchers have demonstrated the Hong–Ou–Mandel (HOM) effect with up to 12 ...

By ignoring part of his own experiment, a physicist coaxed time to emerge from within a closed quantum system.

Over the past 20 years, scientists have been developing ways of using neutral atoms for quantum computing 1. Writing in Nature, Bluvstein et al. 2 demonstrate how far these methods have come: the ...

A new laser-optical system uses 2,000 controllable beams to precisely position atoms, enabling key logic processes in a ...

When atoms get close together (like, really close together) strange quantum effects can take place. A new study from MIT successfully placed two dysprosium atoms only 50 nanometers apart—10 times ...

A couple of weeks back I posted an answer to a question from a Twitter follower’s child, who asked “How Strong Is Space?” That was fun, so here’s another kid-question answered, this one from my own ...

Travis Kalanick has transformed City Storage Systems, the parent of CloudKitchens, to Atoms, adding a new focus on robotics. Kalanick made the announcement on the "TBPN" podcast, sharing that the ...

The ancient Greek and Indian philosophers who first conjectured that matter was made of tiny little bits of stuff would not believe that now, more than 25 centuries later, we can actually see them.

When it comes to our world, our Solar System, and everything we can see in our Universe, it's all made up of the same ingredients: atoms. Electrons and atomic nuclei interact and link up to form not ...