Theoretical physics

• Light from ancient quasars helps confirm quantum entanglement: Results are among the strongest evidence yet for 'spooky action at a distance' (22 Aug 2018)
  
• How Einstein's equivalence principle extends to the quantum world (18 Aug 2018)
  
• Magnetic antiparticles offer new horizons for information technologies (16 Aug 2018)
  
• Hole-based artificial atoms could be key to spin-based qubit (16 Aug 2018)
  
• Controlling hole spin for future quantum spin-based devices, topological materials (16 Aug 2018)
  
• Atom interferometer (16 Aug 2018)
  
• Syracuse physicists to construct particle tracking device with $3.7 million NSF award (15 Aug 2018)
  
• Researcher accurately determines energy difference between two quantum states (15 Aug 2018)
  
• How hot is Schrödinger's coffee? (15 Aug 2018)
  
• Another step forward on universal quantum computer (14 Aug 2018)
  
• A new artificial quantum material essential in developing high-efficiency computers (14 Aug 2018)
  
• The marriage of topology and magnetism in a Weyl system (06 Aug 2018)
  
• Complexity test offers new perspective on small quantum computers (06 Aug 2018)
  
• Physicists demonstrate new method to make single photons (28 Jul 2018)
  
• Louis Taillefer wins Kamerlingh Onnes prize for superconductivity research (28 Jul 2018)
  
• 3Q: Richard Milner on a new U.S. particle accelerator (28 Jul 2018)
  
• Theorists publish highest-precision prediction of muon magnetic anomaly (14 Jul 2018)
  
• New level of precision achieved in combined measurements of Higgs boson couplings (13 Jul 2018)
  
• Magnetic vortices: Two independent magnetic skyrmion phases discovered in a single material (13 Jul 2018)
  
• Underlying mechanism discovered for magnetic effect in superconducting spintronics (12 Jul 2018)
  
• Qubits as valves: Controlling quantum heat engines (12 Jul 2018)
  
• Quarks observed to interact via minuscule 'weak lightsabers' (12 Jul 2018)
  
• 18-qubit entanglement sets new record (12 Jul 2018)
  
• Unconventional superconductor may be used to create quantum computers of the future (03 Jul 2018)
  
• Time Crystals to Tetraquarks: Quantum Physics in 2017 (03 Jul 2018)
  
• Three photons bind together to make a ‘molecule’ of light – Physics World (03 Jul 2018)
  
• The BIG Bell Test (03 Jul 2018)
  
• Real-world intercontinental quantum communications enabled by the Micius satellite (03 Jul 2018)
  
• Quantum 'spooky action at a distance' becoming practical (03 Jul 2018)
  
• Quantum noise reduction method for enhanced precision in atomic clocks: Atomic Spin Squeezing: Not the Olympic sport of your dreams, but a way of enhancing measurement reliability at the quantum scale (03 Jul 2018)
  
• Quantum-enhanced sensing of magnetic fields (03 Jul 2018)
  
• Quantum coupling (03 Jul 2018)
  
• Physicists Have Discovered a Way to Track Unobserved Quantum Particles (03 Jul 2018)
  
• Physicists create new form of light: Newly observed optical state could enable quantum computing with photons (03 Jul 2018)
  
• Physicists create first direct images of the square of the wave function of a hydrogen molecule (03 Jul 2018)
  
• Nuclear physicists leap into quantum computing with first simulations of atomic nucleus (03 Jul 2018)
  
• New quantum computer design to predict molecule properties (03 Jul 2018)
  
• New algorithm for simulating the structure of quantum systems on a quantum photonic chip (03 Jul 2018)
  
• Neutron stars cast light on quark matter (03 Jul 2018)
  
• Meet the 'odderon': Large Hadron Collider experiment shows potential evidence of quasiparticle sought for decades (03 Jul 2018)
  
• Leaving Flatland: Quantum Hall effect physics in 4-D (03 Jul 2018)
  
• Four-dimensional physics in two dimensions (03 Jul 2018)
  
• Exploring the realistic nature of the wave function in quantum mechanics (03 Jul 2018)
  
• Detecting the birth and death of a phonon (03 Jul 2018)
  
• 'Weyl-Kondo semimetal': Physicists discover new type of quantum material (02 Jul 2018)
  
• Researchers develop silicon chip-based quantum photonic devices (02 Jul 2018)
  
• Controlling photons with a photon (02 Jul 2018)
  
• Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox observed in many-particle system for the first time (01 Jul 2018)
  
• 3 Questions: Pinning down a neutrino’s mass (01 Jul 2018)
  
• Physicists create quantum state detector (21 Jun 2018)
  
• NMRCloudQ: A quantum cloud experience on a nuclear magnetic resonance quantum computer (21 Jun 2018)
  
• Proton magnetic moment measurement is most precise yet – Physics World (10 Jun 2018)
  
• Seeing the light? Study illuminates how quantum magnets mimic light (07 Jun 2018)
  
• Supercomputers provide new window into the life and death of a neutron (02 Jun 2018)
  
• Physicists tune the dynamics of exotic quantum particles (02 Jun 2018)
  
• Quantum effects observed in photosynthesis (26 May 2018)
  
• Simple is beautiful in quantum computing (26 Apr 2018)
  
• Researchers develop data bus for quantum computer (26 Apr 2018)
  
• Quantum simulators wield control over more than 50 qubits, setting new record (26 Apr 2018)
  
• Measurements From CERN Suggest the Possibility of a New Physics (26 Apr 2018)
  
• Harvard Scientists Made a Material That Creates Completely New States of Light (26 Apr 2018)
  
• Butterfly pattern emerges from quantum simulation (26 Apr 2018)
  
• Big step forward for quantum computing: Quantum simulator could be used to probe material properties, new phases of matter and solve optimization problems (26 Apr 2018)
  
• Quantum simulator offers faster route for prime factorization (19 Apr 2018)
  
• Quantum physicists achieve entanglement record (19 Apr 2018)
  
• New quantum method generates really random numbers (19 Apr 2018)
  
• The Science of Quantum Computers Explained in Under Two Minutes (01 Nov 2017)
  
• Physicists propose test of quantum gravity using current technology (01 Nov 2017)
  
• Here's What a World Powered by Quantum Computers Will Look Like (01 Nov 2017)
  
• There and Back Again: Scientists Beam Photons to Space to Test Quantum Theory (26 Oct 2017)
  
• CERN Scientist on What Physicists Have Left to Discover After Higgs Boson (25 Oct 2017)
  
• ATLAS Experiment studies photon-tagged jet quenching in the quark-gluon plasma (25 Oct 2017)
  
• Revealing quantum statistics with a pair of distant atoms (17 Oct 2017)
  
• Researchers take a step toward quantum mechanical analysis of plant metabolism (17 Oct 2017)
  
• Spotting the spin of the Majorana fermion under the microscope (13 Oct 2017)
  
• Single photon reveals quantum entanglement of 16 million atoms: Researchers have demonstrated the entanglement between 16 million atoms in a crystal crossed by a single photon, confirming the theory b (13 Oct 2017)
  
• ATLAS experiment studies fragments of the top quark (09 Oct 2017)
  
• Gravitational waves may oscillate, just like neutrinos (08 Oct 2017)
  
• ATLAS Experiment searches for new symmetries of nature (08 Oct 2017)
  
• Gravity measured using a Bose–Einstein condensate on a chip – Physics World (07 Oct 2017)
  
• Physicists prepare to detect gravitational waves from neutron star collisions (06 Oct 2017)
  
• 3-D quantum gas atomic clock offers new dimensions in measurement (06 Oct 2017)
  
• China builds world's first space-ground integrated quantum communication network (04 Oct 2017)
  
• Physicists create and measure quantized mechanical oscillations – Physics World (26 Sep 2017)
  
• A way to measure and control phonons (23 Sep 2017)
  
• Researchers demonstrate quantum teleportation of patterns of light (22 Sep 2017)
  
• Scientists predict the existence of a new boson: New Madala boson might assist in the understanding of dark matter (21 Sep 2017)
  
• Quantum twisted Loong confirms the physical reality of wavefunctions (21 Sep 2017)
  
• Toward mass-producible quantum computers: Process for positioning quantum bits in diamond optical circuits could work at large scales (20 Sep 2017)
  
• Smart atomic cloud solves Heisenberg's observation problem (20 Sep 2017)
  
• Probability that the quantum world obeys local realism is less than one in a billion, experiment shows (20 Sep 2017)
  
• Niels Bohr: Biography & Atomic Theory (20 Sep 2017)
  
• More than the sum of its parts: the ATLAS Experiment looks inside the proton (20 Sep 2017)
  
• Measured for the first time: Direction of light waves changed by quantum effect (20 Sep 2017)
  
• Magnetic switch turns strange quantum property on and off (20 Sep 2017)
  
• How the quantum Zeno effect impacts Schroedinger's cat (20 Sep 2017)
  
• Entanglement distributed over 1200 km by quantum satellite – Physics World (20 Sep 2017)
  
• ATLAS Experiment explores how the Higgs boson interacts with other bosons (20 Sep 2017)
  
• Scientists evade the Heisenberg uncertainty principle (19 Sep 2017)
  
• Physicists find a way to control charged molecules -- with quantum logic (19 Sep 2017)
  
• Artificial materials created atom-by-atom: Possibility to arrange the atoms precisely bring designer quantum materials closer to reality (19 Sep 2017)
  
• When helium behaves like a black hole (17 Sep 2017)
  
• The discovery of Majorana fermion (17 Sep 2017)
  
• Researchers create 'time crystals' envisioned by Princeton scientists (17 Sep 2017)
  
• Quantum phase transition observed for the first time (17 Sep 2017)
  
• Quantum entanglement between a single photon and a trillion of atoms (17 Sep 2017)
  
• How small can superconductors be? (17 Sep 2017)
  
• First trace of differences between matter and 'ordinary' antimatter (17 Sep 2017)
  
• 'Blurred times' in a quantum world (17 Sep 2017)
  
• Still no violation of Lorentz symmetry, despite strongest test yet (16 Sep 2017)
  
• Scientists present the most accurate time measurements of quantum jumps to date (23 Mar 2017)
  
• Light and matter merge in quantum coupling (22 Mar 2017)
  
• For first time, individual atoms seen keeping away from each other or bunching up as pairs (22 Mar 2017)
  
• 'Artificial atom' created in graphene (22 Mar 2017)
  
• UCI physicists confirm possible discovery of fifth force of nature (30 Aug 2016)
  
• New material discovery allows study of elusive Weyl fermion (22 Aug 2016)
  
• Quantum theory and Einstein's special relativity applied to plasma physics issues (01 Aug 2016)
  
• Researchers blur the line between classical and quantum physics by connecting chaos and entanglement (21 Jul 2016)
  
• LHCb unveils new particles (10 Jul 2016)
  
• Physicists discover family of tetraquarks (09 Jul 2016)
  
• Quantum computer simulates fundamental particle interactions for the first time – Physics World (01 Jul 2016)
  
• Best precision yet for neutrino measurements at Daya Bay (30 Jun 2016)
  
• 'Littlest' quark-gluon plasma revealed by physicists using Large Hadron Collider (29 Jun 2016)
  
• The symmetry of the universe (25 Jun 2016)
  
• Russian physicists create a high-precision 'quantum ruler' (24 Jun 2016)
  
• Particle zoo in a quantum computer: First experimental quantum simulation of particle physics phenomena (23 Jun 2016)
  
• Method for detecting quantum entanglement refined (21 Jun 2016)
  
• Light-matter interplay probed: Physicists achieve quantum Hall state with light (14 Jun 2016)
  
• Has Stephen Hawking Just Solved a Huge Black-Hole Mystery? (14 Jun 2016)
  
• NIST's super quantum simulator 'entangles' hundreds of ions (12 Jun 2016)
  
• Dead or Alive, Schrödinger's Cat Can Be in 2 Boxes at Once (12 Jun 2016)
  
• Quantum satellite device tests technology for global quantum network (03 Jun 2016)
  
• After a half century, the exotic pentaquark particle is found (31 May 2016)
  
• The ALICE experiment at CERN makes precise comparison of light nuclei and antinuclei (27 May 2016)
  
• Mystery Deepens: Matter and Antimatter Are Mirror Images (24 May 2016)
  
• Latest results from the LHC experiments (16 May 2016)
  
• Weyl fermions are spotted at long last – Physics World (15 May 2016)
  
• Exploring the Higgs boson's dark side (15 May 2016)
  
• Weyl points, first predicted in 1929, observed for the first time (14 May 2016)
  
• How light is detected affects the atom that emits it (14 May 2016)
  
• Syracuse physicists confirm existence of rare pentaquarks discovery (12 May 2016)
  
• LHCb claims discovery of two pentaquarks – Physics World (12 May 2016)
  
• Quantum swing—a pendulum that moves forward and backwards at the same time (10 May 2016)
  
• Jetting into the moments after the Big Bang (09 May 2016)
  
• How does an experiment at the Large Hadron Collider work? (07 May 2016)
  
• How spacetime is built by quantum entanglement (03 May 2016)
  
• Do atoms going through a double slit ‘know’ if they are being observed? – Physics World (03 May 2016)
  
• When an electron splits in two (02 May 2016)
  
• Two Large Hadron Collider experiments first to observe rare subatomic process (02 May 2016)
  
• Superfast light source made from artificial atom (29 Apr 2016)
  
• The atom without properties (22 Apr 2016)
  
• Explainer: What are fundamental particles? (19 Apr 2016)
  
• 3,000 atoms entangled with a single photon (19 Apr 2016)
  
• The first ever photograph of light as a particle and a wave (15 Apr 2016)
  
• Six weighty facts about gravity (11 Apr 2016)
  
• ORNL neutron 'splashes' reveal signature of exotic particles (10 Apr 2016)
  
• Two defining features of quantum mechanics never appear together (24 Mar 2016)
  
• The quantum fridge (02 Feb 2016)
  
• Bright sparks shed new light on the dark matter riddle (02 Feb 2016)
  
• Solving hard quantum problems: Everything is connected (29 Jan 2016)
  
• Scientists confirm existence of quantum knots and create them in a quantum-mechanical field (29 Jan 2016)
  
• Quantum algorithms: an overview (29 Jan 2016)
  
• Physicists propose the first scheme to teleport the memory of an organism (29 Jan 2016)
  
• Tapping particles of light: Scientists single out individual photons (22 Dec 2015)
  
• Shaking bosons into fermions (22 Dec 2015)
  
• Physicists set quantum record by using photons to carry messages from electrons almost 2 kilometers apart (22 Dec 2015)
  
• Physicists entangle qubits in a semiconductor at room temperature – Physics World (22 Dec 2015)
  
• Physicists confirm thermodynamic irreversibility in a quantum system (22 Dec 2015)
  
• Double quantum-teleportation milestone is Physics World 2015 Breakthrough of the Year – Physics World (22 Dec 2015)
  
• Computing with time travel (22 Dec 2015)
  
• CERN collides heavy nuclei at new record high energy (22 Dec 2015)
  
• Quantum physics problem proved unsolvable (21 Dec 2015)
  
• NIST adds to quantum computing toolkit with mixed-atom logic operations (21 Dec 2015)
  
• Spooky Action Is Real: Bizarre Quantum Entanglement Confirmed in New Tests (23 Nov 2015)
  
• The universe really is weird, and a landmark quantum experiment proves it (27 Oct 2015)
  
• Caltech physicists uncover novel phase of matter (27 Oct 2015)
  
• Historic Delft Experiments tests Einstein's 'God does not play dice' using quantum 'dice' (22 Oct 2015)
  
• What is quantum in quantum thermodynamics? (19 Oct 2015)
  
• Physicists have learned how to restore the entanglement of 'untangled' quantum light (19 Oct 2015)
  
• The thermodynamic cost of driving quantum systems by their boundaries (08 Oct 2015)
  
• Experiment confirms fundamental symmetry in nature (01 Oct 2015)
  
• Titan helps unpuzzle decades-old plutonium perplexities (30 Sep 2015)
  
• New way of retaining quantum memories stored in light (30 Sep 2015)
  
• With new data, Planck satellite brings early universe into focus (13 Sep 2015)
  
• Searching for ingredients of dark matter and dark energy (13 Sep 2015)
  
• Uniting classical and quantum mechanics: Breakthrough observation of Mott transition in a superconductor (12 Sep 2015)
  
• Researchers use laser to levitate, glowing nanodiamonds in vacuum (08 Sep 2015)
  
• Seeing quantum motion; even one day ripples in the fabric of space-time? (02 Sep 2015)
  
• Scientists 'squeeze' light one particle at a time: Scientists have measured a bizarre effect in quantum physics, in which individual particles of light are said to have been 'squeezed' (02 Sep 2015)
  
• Quantum diffraction at a breath of nothing (02 Sep 2015)
  
• New theory leads to 'radiationless revolution': Physicists have found a radical new way confine electromagnetic energy without it leaking away, akin to throwing a pebble into a pond with no splash (02 Sep 2015)
  
• Quantum computing advance locates neutral atoms (25 Aug 2015)
  
• Reservoir of ultracold atoms is filled continuously – Physics World (11 Aug 2015)
  
• New benchmarks for molecular spectroscopy (11 Aug 2015)
  
• Enlisting symmetry to protect quantum states from disruptions (11 Aug 2015)
  
• Two quantum properties teleported together for first time – Physics World (26 Jul 2015)
  
• This incredible electron micrograph shows light as both a particle and a wave (26 Jul 2015)
  
• The quantum spin Hall effect is a fundamental property of light (26 Jul 2015)
  
• Quantum teleportation on a chip (26 Jul 2015)
  
• Physicists solve quantum tunneling mystery: ANU media release (26 Jul 2015)
  
• Photons simulate time travel in the lab – Physics World (26 Jul 2015)
  
• On quantum scales, there are many second laws of thermodynamics (26 Jul 2015)
  
• Michelson-Morley experiment for electrons: Quantum-information techniques used to explore fundamental physics (26 Jul 2015)
  
• Light, meet matter: Single-photon quantum memory in diamond optical phonons at room temperature (26 Jul 2015)
  
• From quantum, through the big bang, to infinity -- how to explain time? (26 Jul 2015)
  
• Endless oscillations: A theoretical study on quantum systems (26 Jul 2015)
  
• Black holes and the dark sector explained by quantum gravity (26 Jul 2015)
  
• A first glimpse inside a macroscopic quantum state (26 Jul 2015)
  
• How electrons split: New evidence of exotic behaviors (21 Jul 2015)
  
• Correlations of quantum particles help in distinguishing physical processes (21 Jul 2015)
  
• Analogue quantum computers: Still wishful thinking? (21 Jul 2015)
  
• After 85-year search, massless particle with promise for next-generation electronics found (17 Jul 2015)
  
• Elusive New Pentaquark Particle Discovered After 50-Year Hunt (16 Jul 2015)
  
• Training Schrodinger's cat: Controlling the quantum properties of light (12 Jul 2015)
  
• Quantum pigeonholes are not paradoxical after all, say physicists – Physics World (07 Jul 2015)
  
• New method of quantum entanglement packs vastly more data in a photon (07 Jul 2015)
  
• The quantum Cheshire cat: Scientists separate a particle from its properties (22 May 2015)
  
• Scientists track quantum errors in real time (22 May 2015)
  
• Scientists find way to maintain quantum entanglement in amplified signals (22 May 2015)
  
• Quantum meets classical: Qubit fabricated with integrated micromagnet increases speed of quantum manipulation in silicon (22 May 2015)
  
• Quantum leap in lasers brightens future for quantum computing (22 May 2015)
  
• Quantum leap in lasers at Dartmouth brightens future for quantum computing (22 May 2015)
  
• Physicists introduce another quantum animal: The Quantum Pigeon (22 May 2015)
  
• Electrons moving in a magnetic field exhibit strange quantum behavior (22 May 2015)
  
• Electrons in magnetic field reveal surprises – Physics World (22 May 2015)
  
• Boosting the force of empty space (22 May 2015)
  
• An optomechanical crystal to study interactions among colocalized photons and phonons (22 May 2015)
  
• When mediated by superconductivity, light pushes matter million times more (20 May 2015)
  
• Quantum-mechanical monopoles discovered (20 May 2015)
  
• New paths into the world of quasiparticles (20 Jan 2015)
  
• The quantum dance of oxygen (17 Aug 2014)
  
• The world's first photonic router (16 Jul 2014)
  
• Reinterpreting dark matter (07 Jul 2014)
  
• Smallest Force Ever Measured Detected with the Help of Ultracold Atoms (30 Jun 2014)
  
• Researchers create quantum dots with single-atom precision (30 Jun 2014)
  
• 'Compressive sensing' provides new approach to measuring a quantum system (30 Jun 2014)
  
• The story of neutrinos – Physics World (24 Jun 2014)
  
• New data bolsters Higgs boson discovery (24 Jun 2014)
  
• Microsoft steps up its quantum computing ambitions (24 Jun 2014)
  
• University scientists unraveling nature of Higgs boson (23 Jun 2014)
  
• Qubits team up to detect errors – Physics World (22 Jun 2014)
  
• Entangled clocks could provide accurate world time standard – Physics World (22 Jun 2014)
  
• Electrons' magnetic interactions isolated at long last – Physics World (22 Jun 2014)