A team of physicists and engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder has discovered a new way to measure the orientation of magnetic fields using what may be the tiniest compasses around—atoms.

I keep coming back to a strange idea: what if everything we know about quantum physics is already encoded inside a single atom? Not in a mystical sense, but in the very real way that one tiny system ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sai writes about healthcare, innovation and technology. Leveraging the principles of quantum physics, quantum computing can ...

Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) are often described as a "fifth state of matter": a quantum state in which many particles ...

What makes something quantum? This question has kept a small but dedicated fraction of the world’s population – most of them quantum physicists – up at night for decades. At very small scales, we know ...

If you have even a passing interest in your health, you can’t spend long on social media before the algorithm brings you into contact with the infamous Q-word. Are you in touch with your quantum ...

Google says its quantum computing team has crossed a threshold that the field has chased for years: running a genuinely ...

Quantum computers are beginning to become powerful tools for studying some of the most fundamental forces in the universe – and some of the trickiest to understand. Two experiments have used them to ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. You're not alone if you've been hearing the buzz about quantum computing and wondering what it means ...

Quantum computers get a lot of attention, even though they are not ready for prime time, but quantum sensors are already doing useful work. These sensors measure fields, forces and motion so small ...

A quantum computer is a computer that utilizes the uncertainty principles of quantum mechanics. Instead of the digital "bits" used in regular computers, a quantum computer uses what are called qubits ...

Quantum technology might sound like something out of science fiction, but it's quietly stepping into the real world — and it's doing things traditional computers simply can't. If you're wondering what ...