It is something like the "Holy Grail" of physics: unifying particle physics and gravitation. The world of tiny particles is described extremely well by quantum theory, while the world of gravitation ...
This illustration shows, from left to right: John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis. Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach, CC BY-NC Since the prize ...
In the 1960s, a group of physicists and historians began a massive project meant to catalogue and record the history of quantum physics. It was called Sources for History of Quantum Physics (SHQP). As ...
But after reading Decoherence and Quantum Darwinism, a book published in March 2025 by the physicist Wojciech Zurek, I’m excited by the possibility of an answer that does away with all those fanciful ...
Quantum physics has a reputation for needing exotic hardware, from liquid-helium-cooled qubits to sprawling AI clusters, just to crunch through basic simulations. Now a new “physics shortcut” is ...
Jainendra K. Jain's theory of composite fermions belongs firmly in the second category.Born in rural Rajasthan and now the Erwin W. Müller Professor of Physics at Pennsylvania State University, Jain ...