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An exotic phase of matter has been realized on a quantum processor. Matter can exist in different forms, or phases, such as ...

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An international team of scientists has observed a never-before-seen exotic phase of matter on a quantum processor using Google’s 58-qubit AI chip Willow, which previously suggested we may live in a ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — A simple toy is helping scientists understand new details of a mysterious quantum process. The rhythmic click-clacking of the metal balls in Newton’s cradle has long ...

You may think of physics as a way to explain the behaviors of things like black holes, colliding particles, falling apples, and quantum computers. But a small group physicists today is working on a ...

How it works: the wave in the foreground is an illustration of the phase of an out-of-equilibrium Bose-Einstein condensate in a 1D cavity, which belongs to the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang universality class.

Using some of the largest supercomputers available, physics researchers have produced one of the largest simulations ever to help explain one of physics most daunting problems. Using some of the ...

The correlated motion of flocks is an example of global order emerging from local interactions. An essential difference with respect to analogous ferromagnetic systems is that flocks are active: ...