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Major Quantum Computing Strategy Suffers Serious Setbacks
...Nature in April. Yet despite this problem, even the field’s critics find the science too promising to ignore. “The physics behind the creation of Majoranas is well understood theoretically,” said...
Quantum Machine Appears to Defy Universe’s Push for Disorder
...Lukin said they observed. The system seems to be imbued with some special physics that allows it to retrace its path, Papić said. “It leaves bread crumbs and goes back...
Controversy Continues Over Whether Hot Water Freezes Faster Than Cold
...to misusing a refrigerator.” Thus begins a 1969 paper in the journal Physics Education in which Mpemba described an incident at Magamba Secondary School in Tanzania when he and his...
Solution: ‘Natural Law and Elegant Math’
...our object will continue to have a finite velocity and will therefore cover the distance in finite time. Hence, by the idealized laws of physics, the object will never stop,...
AI Starts to Sift Through String Theory’s Near-Endless Possibilities
...macroworld of particles would emerge. “Does string theory make unique predictions? Is it really physics? The jury is just still out,” said Lara Anderson, a physicist at Virginia Tech who...
What’s the Magic Behind Graphene’s ‘Magic’ Angle?
...be fair, Jarillo-Herrero’s long, lonely hunt for interesting bilayer graphene physics at a 1.1-degree twist was inspired by a prediction of sorts: a guess, in a 2011 paper by Allan...
Physicists Create a Holographic Wormhole Using a Quantum Computer
...the holographic principle, a sweeping hypothesis about how the two pillars of fundamental physics, quantum mechanics and general relativity, fit together. Physicists have strived since the 1930s to reconcile these...
The Mysterious Forces Inside the Nucleus Grow a Little Less Strange
...nuclear physics,” said Laura Fabbietti, a physicist at the Technical University of Munich, “understanding [these] interactions from first principles.” After decades of work, powerful ways of spying on “hadrons” —...
In a Monster Star’s Light, a Hint of Darkness
...particle physics experiment on Earth will cut to the heart of the mystery much faster. But uncovering these isolated pockets of darkness — and any intricate physics that accompanies them...