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

Quantum mechanics and general relativity are the two pinnacles of 20th-century physics. In their respective fields, ...

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

Quantum computers, systems that process information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, have the potential of ...

It's one thing to dream up a quantum internet that could send hacker-proof information around the world via photons superimposed in different quantum states. It's quite another to physically show it's ...

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Although the basic idea of quantum physics dates back to the earliest years of the twentieth century, it wasn’t until 1925, on the German island of Heligoland, that Werner Heisenberg had the ...

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 ...