Schrödinger’s Cat Just Got a Whole Litter of Weird New Siblings in a Major Quantum Breakthrough

First formulated in 1935, the famous thought experiment attempts to explain the weirdness of quantum superposition, but a new study shows that this theoretical feline is really only the beginning of ...
Purdue University

Nobel laureate Alain Aspect to give May 13 lecture

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind.—Renowned French scientist Alain Aspect, who won the 2022 Nobel Prize for his pathfinding research in quantum physics, will give a lecture on Monday (May 13) at Purdue University ...
Purdue University

Caltech president, a pioneer in quantum physics, to headline April Presidential Lecture Series event

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Caltech president and pioneering physicist Thomas Rosenbaum, an expert in the promising field of quantum physics, will join Purdue University President Mung Chiang in April for ...
Mississippi State University

MSU’s Novotny unravels wonders of ‘Quantum Science and Technology’ in prestigious Giles Lecture

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mark A. Novotny, a Mississippi State University William L. Giles Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy, will explore the complex world of quantum mechanics and its rapidly ...

Quantum gravity tests may mistake ordinary spacetime for superposition

Everything around us, from atoms and molecules to planets and galaxies, is governed by two extraordinarily successful ...

Ultrafast scanning tunneling microscopy reaches the quantum mechanical space-time limit for the first time

Werner Heisenberg's famous uncertainty principle describes one of the most intriguing features of quantum physics: certain pairs of physical quantities describing a particle, such as position and ...
Science Daily

Oxford physicists achieve first-ever “quadsqueezing” breakthrough in quantum physics

Scientists have created a powerful new way to control quantum systems, achieving the first-ever demonstration of quadsqueezing—an elusive fourth-order quantum effect. By combining simple forces in a ...
insider.si.edu

Mikhail D. Lukin, "Two lectures on quantum control of spins and photons"

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Science Daily

Scientists make quantum time flow backward in stunning physics breakthrough

Researchers have created quantum control techniques that can make a system appear to run backward in time. By precisely managing quantum measurements, they can reshape the system's arrow of time and ...
New Scientist

The forgotten women of quantum physics

In the 1960s, a group of physicists and historians began a massive project meant to catalogue and record the history of quantum physics. It was called Sources for History of Quantum Physics (SHQP). As ...
New Scientist

An ambitious look at quantum physics is fun – but overdoes it a little

Physicist Paul Davies’s Quantum 2.0: The past, present and future of quantum physics ends on a beautiful note. “To be aware of the quantum world is to glimpse something of the majesty and elegance of ...