Picture of a trapped-ion quantum computer on which the experiment was conducted. Credit: IonQ In the context of quantum mechanics and information, "magic" is a key property of quantum states that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a groundbreaking discovery, a team of researchers at the Rice University have reported the first direct observation of a ...

A new study reveals that highly disordered indium oxide superconductors undergo a first-order quantum phase transition — a sudden shift from a superconducting to an insulating state. This finding is ...

Researchers have achieved a remarkable result: capturing and studying phase changes in quantum hardware, which hold hold promise for next-generation technologies like quantum computing and ...

At the core of this research is the concept of quantum phase transitions. Just as water changes between solid, liquid and gas states, electrons in quantum materials can shift between different phases ...

Physicists have produced experimental evidence that anyons, exotic quasiparticles long thought to exist only in ...

Back in 2019, Google made waves by claiming it had achieved what has been called “quantum supremacy”—the ability of a quantum computer to perform operations that would take a wildly impractical amount ...

After decades of looking, researchers have seen a string of atoms go through a 1D phase change so elusive that it could only happen inside a quantum simulator. “One motivation [for our experiment] is ...

A research team from southern university of science and technology (SUSTech) has uncovered a new way that quantum matter can change its state: a weak magnetic field triggers a transition from a glassy ...