For the first time, an international team of scientists has experimentally simulated spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) at zero temperature using a superconducting quantum processor. This achievement ...

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Quantum computers still face a major hurdle on their pathway to practical use cases: their limited ability to correct the ...

Nearly 50 years ago, physicists floated a bold idea: our universe might be stuck in a false vacuum. This state feels stable, ...

A novel equation tracks the time evolution of an open quantum system’s topology Quantum systems tend to become less “quantum-y” as they interact with their environment. So when developing a ...

String theory has long been presented as physicists' best candidate for describing the fundamental nature of the Universe.