A long-standing physics mystery has been solved with the discovery of emergent photon-like behavior inside a strange quantum material. The finding confirms a true 3D quantum spin liquid and unlocks a ...

An international team of scientists led by Rice's Pengcheng Dai has confirmed the existence of emergent photons and fractionalized spin excitations in a rare quantum spin liquid. An international team ...

For building ultra-fast and secure quantum networks, quantum information must be stored and transferred reliably across long distances. A quantum register comprising numerous entangled nuclear spins ...

Matrix models have emerged as a powerful framework in theoretical physics, offering a nonperturbative approach to describing quantum space-time. In these models, fundamental degrees of freedom are ...

For more than a century, gravity has been the stubborn outlier in physics, resisting every attempt to merge Einstein’s smooth ...

Quantum information theory is a field of study that examines how quantum technologies store and process information. Over the ...

The University of Colorado Boulder physics department is happy to welcome Dr. Chris Akers as the newest faculty member! Akers, an assistant professor of physics, has already made a name for himself in ...

Quantum effects are no longer confined to ultra-cold chips and vacuum chambers. For the first time, researchers are deliberately engineering living cells so that they behave like quantum bits, hinting ...

The idea of emergent gravity is still new and requires a lot of assumptions in its calculations to make it work. But if experimental evidence ever proves it real, we would need to totally rewrite the ...

Quantum information science is no longer confined to chalkboards and controlled laboratory tests. You now see working quantum ...

Husker physicists (from left) Xiaoshan Xu, Peter Dowben, Evgeny Tsymbal, Xia Hong and Zuocheng Zhang stand next to an oxide thin film deposition system inside Hong's lab at the University of ...