The Physics World 2024 Breakthrough of the Year goes to Mikhail Lukin, Dolev Bluvstein and colleagues at Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and QuEra Computing, and ...

Most of us are familiar with the concept of a random walk — a classic example is provided by a pollen particle suspended in water. But what if we replace the pollen with a quantum system, to produce a ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics was handed out to people for pulling off what Marvel writers only pretend to understand: showing that quantum weirdness isn’t confined to subatomic particles. They ...

One of the most fascinating natural phenomena on Earth is the flipping of its magnetic field, which has occurred hundreds of times in the last 160 million years. When the magnetic field flips, the ...

Problem description. (a) Random stacking process (b) Description of block positions (c) Illustration of the position of the centre of gravity of the upper part of the tower above level 3 (𝑛 = 6, 𝑖 = ...

Landing on another body in the Solar System is a tough business. Despite many successful touchdowns throughout history, spacecraft sent to land on the lunar surface still regularly fail in the final ...

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