The fifth state of matter—the ultracold Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC)—has been an invaluable tool in unlocking the secrets ...

Quantum theory and Einstein's theory of general relativity are two of the greatest successes in modern physics. Each works ...

Physicists are quietly rewriting the rulebook for how we might cross the gulf between stars, not by bolting bigger rockets to ...

Using ultracold atoms and laser light, researchers recreated the behavior of a Josephson junction—an essential component of ...

In a Columbia University laboratory in New York, physicist Sebastian Will and his team have reached one of ultracold physics’ ...

As the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology draws to a close, Margaret Harris revisits some of the year’s ...

Forgetting feels like a failure of attention, but physics treats it as a fundamental process with a measurable price. At the ...

Long considered a serious technical challenge, superradiance could actually help quantum devices go even further.

Take, for instance, quantum entanglement, which says that the state of one particle can be determined by examining the state ...

Quantum information theory is a field of study that examines how quantum technologies store and process information. Over the ...

Try as they might, scientists can’t truly rid a space or an object of its energy. But what “zero-point energy” really means ...

We’re celebrating 180 years of Scientific American. Explore our legacy of discovery and look ahead to the future. This year is the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, according to ...