Schrödinger’s Cat Just Got a Whole Litter of Weird New Siblings in a Major Quantum Breakthrough

First formulated in 1935, the famous thought experiment attempts to explain the weirdness of quantum superposition, but a new study shows that this theoretical feline is really only the beginning of ...
Purdue University

Nobel laureate Alain Aspect to give May 13 lecture

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind.—Renowned French scientist Alain Aspect, who won the 2022 Nobel Prize for his pathfinding research in quantum physics, will give a lecture on Monday (May 13) at Purdue University ...
Purdue University

Caltech president, a pioneer in quantum physics, to headline April Presidential Lecture Series event

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Caltech president and pioneering physicist Thomas Rosenbaum, an expert in the promising field of quantum physics, will join Purdue University President Mung Chiang in April for ...
Mississippi State University

MSU’s Novotny unravels wonders of ‘Quantum Science and Technology’ in prestigious Giles Lecture

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mark A. Novotny, a Mississippi State University William L. Giles Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy, will explore the complex world of quantum mechanics and its rapidly ...
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Time may be an illusion derived from quantum entanglement

Time has always seemed like the one thing physics could count on. Matter changes, stars die, particles flicker in and out, ...
Ars Technica

2025 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for macroscale quantum tunneling

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum tunneling and energy quantization in an electrical ...
Nature

Unifying gravity and quantum theory requires better understanding of time

Quantum mechanics is our most successful physical theory. Created to account for atomic phenomena, it has a vast range of applications extending well beyond the atomic realm, from predicting the ...