15-year-old becomes PhD in Quantum Physics, sets sights on ‘creating super-humans’
Laurent Simons successfully defended his doctoral thesis at the University of Antwerp earlier this week. The topic of…
World Strategic Forum Shifts Quantum Conversation From Theory to Implementation
Insider Brief Florida’s World Strategic Forum signaled the state’s emergence as an active participant in the global quantum…
Metamaterial with more shapes than atoms allows endless sound control
The age of smart, self-optimizing materials has begun. A programmable metamaterial has been developed that shatters the limits…
Entanglement-enhanced nanoscale single-spin sensing | Nature
Casola, F., van der Sar, T. & Yacoby, A. Probing condensed matter physics with magnetometry based on nitrogen-vacancy…
Quantum Sensors in Space – IEEE Spectrum
An emerging generation of quantum sensors are capable of performing tasks such as detecting the magnetic fields of…
Did cannibal stars and boson stars populate the early universe? – Physics World
Did cannibal stars and boson stars populate the early universe? – Physics World Skip to main content Discover…
Learning quantum states of continuous-variable systems
Trace distance The trace distance between two quantum states ρ1 and ρ2 is defined as $${d}_{{\rm{tr}}}(\;{\rho }_{1},{\rho }_{2}):=\frac{1}{2}\|{\rho…
Scientists simulate what an object looks like at 99.9% light speed
Physicists in Vienna staged how a cube and a sphere would look in a camera if they raced…
Peat turned into low-cost catalyst, could replace platinum in fuel cells
A team of researchers has demonstrated that well-decomposed peat could serve as a sustainable and highly efficient precursor…
Scientists find cancer-fighting isotope hidden in accelerator waste
Scientists have found a way to convert high-energy radiation waste from particle accelerators into a critically scarce medical…
A mysterious glow surrounding the Milky Way could be first evidence of dark matter
For nearly a century, dark matter has remained an enigma. Despite outnumbering normal matter five to one, it…
‘Portal to physics beyond the Standard Model’: World’s largest neutrino detector starts up — with incredible results
The first results from the world’s largest neutrino detector have just been published, and they reveal the most…