Errors in quantum computers are an obstacle for their widespread use. But a team of scientists say that, by using an antimony atom and the Schrödinger's Cat thought experiment, they could have found a ...

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A physicist believes he may have solved the notorious "grandfather paradox", suggesting that time travel to the past may not ...

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In a significant scientific breakthrough, engineers at Penn Engineering have developed a refined form of nuclear quadrupolar ...

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Ramesh Rao, director of the Qualcomm Institute (QI) at UC San Diego and professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at UC San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering, sits down with Shane ...

USTC researchers created a groundbreaking on-chip photonic simulator, leveraging thin-film lithium niobate chips to simplify ...

Professor of Physics Tom Mehen died unexpectedly last weekend at age 54 at his home in Chapel Hill. The cause of his death ...

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The working of a quantum computer is based on the principles of quantum mechanics, an area of physics that deals with the smallest particles in the universe. Physicist Richard Feynman proposed the ...