There are moments in the history of human thought when a simple realization transforms our understanding of reality. A moment ...

Researchers at Empa have taken a significant step toward practical quantum computing by creating and manipulating Heisenberg ...

Empa researchers from the nanotech@surfaces laboratory have experimentally recreated another fundamental theoretical model ...

Empa researchers from the nanotech@surfaces laboratory have experimentally recreated another fundamental theoretical model ...

It also marks the centenary of Werner Heisenberg’s seminal work in modern physics. In recent years there have been dramatic developments in quantum communications, cryptography and computing ...

We are now in the middle of the second wave of quantum capabilities, which heralds quantum computing, enhanced sensing ...

Quantum systems don’t just transition between phases—they do so in ways that defy classical intuition. A new experiment has ...

In a new publication in Nature Materials, an international team of researchers has developed groundbreaking artificial chains ...

Physics has a problem—their key models of quantum theory and the theory of relativity do not fit together. Now, Dr. Wolfgang Wieland from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) is ...

Physics has a problem – their key models of quantum theory and the theory of relativity do not fit together. Now, the German Research Foundation is ...

Phase transitions, like water freezing into ice, are a familiar part of our world. But in quantum systems, they can behave ...