Researchers demonstrate that by shaping the spatial and temporal structure of photons, they can engineer customized quantum ...

Ramy Shelbaya – co-founder and chief executive of UK firm Quantum Dice – talks to Anna Demming about how the company is using quantum mechanics to generate random numbers, and the challenges and ...

Quantum physics has a reputation for needing exotic hardware, from liquid-helium-cooled qubits to sprawling AI clusters, just ...

Complex numbers are created when you add a real number and an imaginary number (like “i”). These numbers are used throughout ...

The exploration of quantum information challenges objective reality, positing the universe as a hologram is explored through ...

A century ago, the strange behavior of atoms and elementary particles led physicists to formulate a new theory of nature. That theory, quantum mechanics, found immediate success, proving its worth ...

Physicists have transformed a decades-old technique for simplifying quantum equations into a reusable, user-friendly ...

Quantum technology is accelerating out of the lab and into the real world, and a new article argues that the field now stands ...

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 ...

Olival Freire Jr is a professor of physics and the history of physics at the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. What makes matter stable? Why are atoms as they are? Why do different materials vary ...

A rift runs deep through the heart of physics. The general theory of relativity, which describes gravity, clashes with quantum physics. In an effort to seal that physics fissure, untold numbers of ...