Recent breakthroughs in quantum mechanics, highlighted by the Nobel Prize in Physics, are fundamentally changing the energy sector by enabling new forms of energy harvesting that surpass thermodynamic ...

A glittering hunk of crystal gets its iridescence from a highly regular atomic structure. Frank Wilczek, the 2012 Nobel Laureate in Physics, proposed quantum systems––like groups of particles––could ...

Technological devices are getting ever smaller, but as they approach the scale at which quantum physics matters, our understanding of how they interact with their environment evaporates. James Millen ...

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 ...

In a huge leap forward for technology, Google recently unveiled their latest quantum chip, known as Willow. A quantum chip is the key piece of hardware in a quantum computer – a device that performs ...

For many business leaders, quantum computing feels like science fiction—a technology that’s exciting, but distant. That’s a mistake. While we have yet to engineer quantum computing at even a remotely ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tim Bajarin covers the tech industry’s impact on PC and CE markets. Two years ago, I spent about six months in deep discussions ...

There, an emerging ecosystem of talent and innovation is working to turn the technology’s extraordinary potential into real-world impact, backed by $1 billion in combined investment over the next five ...

A strange new phase of matter is forcing physicists to rethink what electrons can do, and it is arriving just as space agencies and private launch companies are hunting for materials that can survive ...

One hundred years ago on a quiet, rocky island, German physicist Werner Heisenberg helped set in motion a series of scientific developments that would touch nearly all of physics. There, Heisenberg ...

On the centennial of modern quantum mechanics, the Nobel Committee awarded the year’s most prestigious physics prize to an experiment that demonstrated how quantum effects play out on large ...