Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers at MIT have developed two new control techniques that have enabled them to achieve a world-record single-qubit ...

You can tell a lot about a material based on the type of light shining at it: Optical light illuminates a material's surface, ...

The geometry or shape of a quantum system is mathematically expressed by a tool called the quantum geometric tensor (QGT). It also explains how a quantum system's state changes when we tweak certain ...

MIT researchers have devised a new molecular technique that lets electrons probe inside atomic nuclei, replacing massive particle accelerators with a tabletop setup. By studying radium monofluoride, ...

Using the world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, scientists have found that the quark-gluon ...

MIT scientists uncovered direct evidence of unconventional superconductivity in magic-angle graphene by observing a distinctive V-shaped energy gap. The discovery hints that electron pairing in this ...

Using single-atom-resolved microscopy, ultracold quantum gases composed of two types of atoms reveal distinctly different spatial correlations — the bosons on the left exhibit bunching, while the ...

In its first moments, the infant universe was a trillion-degree-hot soup of quarks and gluons. These elementary particles ...