More than a century before quantum mechanics was born, Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton stumbled onto an idea that would quietly foreshadow one of the deepest truths in physics. While ...

Working with existing infrastructure, IBM is angling to expedite the benefits of quantum computing with help from classical architectures.

A newly derived “q-desic” equation suggests that quantum effects may subtly alter particle trajectories across the universe.

The company claims the blueprint demonstrates how quantum computers can be integrated into modern supercomputing environments ...

Quantum mechanics is one of the most successful theories in science — and makes much of modern life possible. Technologies ranging from computer chips to medical-imaging machines rely on the ...

Physicist Paul Davies looks back at the past century of quantum mechanics—the most disruptive theory in the history of modern science.

At temperatures approaching absolute zero, most magnetic materials settle into tidy patterns. Their tiny magnetic moments, or ...

Researchers at the University of Waterloo have produced experimental evidence that quantum-level effects can alter the ...

Quantum computing is a new but rapidly growing tech sector that New Mexico leaders say the state is on the forefront of the future in.

Physicists at Boston University have achieved what amounts to a long-sought benchmark in quantum measurement: detecting the ...

I have been to more scientific conferences than I care to count, but a recent meeting held on the island of Helgoland to celebrate the centenary of quantum mechanics is one of the strangest – in a ...

A single nanoparticle made of glass (a white point near the center of the photo) is confined in an optical potential created with a focused laser beam. By detecting the light scattered by the ...