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

Strongly interacting quantum particles are key to some of the most fascinating phenomena in modern physics—from magnetism and ...

While heating a catalyst causes growth of nanoparticles through Ostwald ripening, repeated on/off high-temperature shockwaves can reverse the process, converting the nanoparticles into stable ...

A trapped cloud of ultracold atoms, colder than almost anything found in nature, has become the setting for a deceptively simple question: if a universe has no built-in clock, how could anything ...

Some periods in Earth history are so different from our own that they may as well belong to another planet. Many people are ...

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 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 ...

Lab-based studies reveal how carbon atoms diffuse on the surface of interstellar ice grains to form complex organic compounds, crucial to reveal the chemical complexity in the universe. Lab-based ...

Can you use a single atom to capture an image? Single atoms are probably not replacing smartphone cameras soon, but an atom ...

Kane spelled out the geometry in detail. He placed the phosphorus donors in an array about 20 nanometers apart, each sitting ...

Scientists use laser pulses to manipulate atoms at terahertz frequencies, advancing next-gen computer technology through ...

When most of us picture an atom, we think about a small nucleus made of protons and neutrons orbited by one or more electrons. We view these electrons as point-like while rapidly orbiting the nucleus.