(Tony Melov/Canva) Quantum mechanics is so odd that even the visionary genius who described the secrets of the Universe seemed to dismiss certain aspects as eerie. "Spooky action at a distance" is how ...

Optical fibers are already the backbone of global communication systems. Recently, however, physicists have started to explore how their functionality could be boosted further by conveying information ...

“You could say that the particles have no individual properties, they only have common properties,” explains Prof. Joachim Burgdörfer from TU Wien, shedding light on the mysterious phenomenon of ...

Quantum theory describes events that take place on extremely short time scales. In the past, such events were regarded as ‘momentary’ or ‘instantaneous’: An electron orbits the nucleus of an atom – in ...

An atom is hit by a laser pulse. One electron is ripped out of the atom, another electron is shifted into a state with higher energy. Quantum theory describes events that take place on extremely short ...

Ronald Hanson is at QuTech and the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, Delft 2628 CJ, the Netherlands. The authors show that for a 10-km fibre link, entanglement between ...

Scientists have long sought to unravel the mysteries of strange metals -- materials that defy conventional rules of electricity and magnetism. Now, a team of physicists has made a breakthrough in this ...

Nerve fibres in the brain could produce pairs of particles linked by quantum entanglement. If backed by experimental observations, this phenomenon could explain how millions of cells in the brain ...