This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features William Phillips, who shared the 1997 Nobel Prize for Physics for his work on cooling and trapping atoms using laser light.

Until now, creating quantum superpositions of ultra-cold atoms has been a real headache, too slow to be realistic in the ...

It’s been 100 years since a young German unlocked the mysteries of quantum mechanics. See how that gave us smartphones, GPS, ...

The rabbit hole of quantum gets weirder the deeper you go—but also has plenty of promise.

A new paper explains how signals oscillating at complex-valued frequencies could transform sensing, imaging, and ...

A quantum machine has used entangled qubits to generate a number certified as truly random for the first time, demonstrating ...

Resilience isn't just bouncing back; it's evolving forward. Discover how to leverage uncertainty to become stronger, clearer, ...

Applied physicists have created a photon router that could plug into quantum networks to create robust optical interfaces for noise-sensitive microwave quantum computers.

University of Adelaide scientists used quantum cameras to safely image live embryos, advancing IVF and biological imaging ...

Big data has gotten too big. Now, a research team with statisticians from Cornell has developed a data representation method ...

Since Microsoft’s Majorana 1 quantum computing news, some members of the scientific community have raised questions about the ...

Scientists have long sought to unravel the mysteries of strange metals -- materials that defy conventional rules of electricity and magnetism. Now, a team of physicists has made a breakthrough in this ...