Quantum Experiment Breaks a Long-Standing X-Ray Energy Limit
Helium atoms can produce coherent X-rays at energies beyond the cutoff predicted by standard high-harmonic theory. Credit: Shutterstock…
Strange Quantum Oscillations Reveal New Physics in an Exotic Material
Zirconium pentatelluride continues to produce quantum oscillations under magnetic fields so strong that conventional behavior should disappear. Credit:…
Quantum Fluctuations Break a Crystal’s Symmetry Rules
Illuminating the crystal with light with a built-in sense of rotation (white beam) reveals regions where the star-of-David…
A New Quantum Blueprint Could Make States Easier To Tell Apart
Researchers developed a mathematical framework for designing non-Gaussian quantum states that can be made perfectly distinguishable. Credit: Shutterstock…
Quantum Entanglement Generated From Sunlight For The First Time Ever
Entanglement is one of the best tricks in the quantum physics magic box, two particles that are inextricably…
A room-temperature cavity–magnonic source of correlated microwave magnon polariton pairs
Mandel, L. & Wolf, E. Optical Coherence and Quantum Optics (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1995). Scully, M. O. &…
Physicists Think They’ve Discovered a New Type of Quantum Matter
Quantum mechanics is all about explaining the weirdest, most unlikely aspects of our reality, including oddities we might…
Cold-atom comagnetometry via optical control of spin states
Pezzè, L., Smerzi, A., Oberthaler, M. K., Schmied, R. & Treutlein, P. Quantum metrology with nonclassical states of…
Light Reveals the Hidden Quantum Motion Inside an Exotic Crystal
Researchers used light to reveal the collective motion of electrons forming a Wigner crystal. Credit: Enrique Sahagún, Scixel…
Empty Space May Not Be Empty After All: Magnetar Reveals a Bizarre Quantum Effect
A Swinburne astronomer may have just confirmed one of the quirkiest aspects of quantum mechanics: that seemingly empty…