An international team of researchers has solved a long-standing puzzle in quantum physics by discovering an elusive ...

Scientists have successfully made germanium, a key semiconductor used in computer chips and fiber optics, superconducting for ...

New device emits photons in telecom fiber band from the start, so it avoids a separate converter that can waste photons.

The 2025 Nobel Prize in physics honors three quantum physicists – John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis – for their study of quantum mechanics in a macroscopic electrical circuit. Since ...

In the 1980s, John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis demonstrated quantum effects in an electric circuit, an advance that underlies today’s quantum computers.

Spin glasses are physical systems in which the small magnetic moments of particles (i.e., spins) interact with each other in ...

Scientists John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for "the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantization in an electric ...

Most of the atomic clocks in the world - fewer than 500 in total - are housed at standards institutes and used to keep time ...

Olival Freire Jr is a professor of physics and the history of physics at the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. What makes matter stable? Why are atoms as they are? Why do different materials vary ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Since the prize announcement, cheers and excitement have surrounded the home ...