Physicists at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) in Hamburg have discovered a striking new form of quantum behavior. In star-shaped Kagome crystals—named after a ...

For years, researchers have tried various ways to coax quantum bits—or qubits, the basic building blocks of quantum computers—to remain in their quantum state for ever-longer times, a key step in ...

Quantum memory coherence time breakthrough: physicists have achieved 15-second spin coherence in a fully concentrated ...

Figure 1: To grasp the principal result of Niu and colleagues’ research, consider a device that raises a suspended weight in Earth’s gravitational field. Since both work and coherent ergotropy are ...

Excitons are particle-like entities that form when electrons bind to electron vacancies called holes. A long-standing goal in condensed-matter physics is the unambiguous creation of a collective ...

Quantum coherence and decoherence are fundamental indications of how well a system of quantum objects -- atoms or other quantum particles -- maintains its relationships and how reliably the ongoing ...

New research shows that the unique properties of atomic Bose-Einstein condensates extend to the internal spin states of the atoms from which the condensates are formed. Bose-Einstein condensates are ...

Scientists work to sync up quantum objects for high-resolution sensing and complex computation. (Nanowerk News) We say a message is incoherent when we can’t make it out, or when it doesn’t make sense.