Theoretical and experimental work described in Nature Physics expands the repertoire of exotic phases of matter.

Researchers from the Department of Energy's Quantum Science Center (QSC) headquartered at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL ...

The Casimir effect, a striking manifestation of quantum fluctuations, arises from the zero‐point energy inherent in the electromagnetic field. Predicted originally by Hendrik Casimir, this phenomenon ...

The concept of the vacuum, initially thought to be empty, is actually steeped in complex physics. From Aristotle's horror vacui to quantum field fluctuations, this piece explores the transition from ...

A team of physicists has pushed the limits of quantum control by cooling the rotational motion of a nanoscale object to its ...

A Gravity Theory That Could Rewrite the Universe’s First Moments The first fraction of a second after the Big Bang has always posed a problem. Physics can describe a great deal about the universe ...

A light pulse is technically empty, yet capable of carrying a trillion photons in a single burst. That is part of what makes bright squeezed vacuum, or BSV, so strange.

Researchers at the Technion—Israel Institute of Technology have, for the first time, measured the temporal duration of ...

Quantum mechanical effects are known to be easily disrupted by disturbances from the surrounding environment, commonly referred to as noise. To minimize these disturbances, physicists often study ...

Quantum friction represents a subtle, yet profound force emerging from the interplay of quantum vacuum fluctuations and electromagnetic interactions between bodies in relative motion. Distinguished ...

Phase diagram as a function of temperature (T), pressure (p), and magnetic field (B), illustrating the emergence of a quantum ...