Physicists at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg have identified a hidden geometric structure reaching 48 ...

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A small mathematical revision to quantum mechanics could effectively limit the purported infinite capacities of quantum ...

Physicists in China have demonstrated that a structure called an optical metasurface can individually trap up to 78,400 ...

Like physics, math has its own set of “fundamental particles”—the prime numbers, which can’t be broken down into smaller natural numbers. They can only be divided by themselves and 1. And in a new ...

Scientists have turned simple glass into a powerful quantum communication device that could safeguard data against future quantum attacks. The chip combines stability, speed, and versatility—handling ...

Physicists have directly visualized the fundamental electronic building blocks of flat-band quantum materials, a class of ...

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Olival Freire Jr is a professor of physics and the history of physics at the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. What makes matter stable? Why are atoms as they are? Why do different materials vary ...

Researchers have proposed that imperfect timekeeping inside quantum processors can create a fundamental noise channel that ...