Glimpsing the quantum vacuum: Particle spin correlations offer insight into how visible matter emerges from 'nothing'

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have uncovered experimental evidence that ...
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Quantum vacuum shocker as particle spins reveal how matter erupts from 'nothing'

The idea that empty space is truly empty has been quietly dying for decades, but new measurements of particle spin are now forcing the issue. By tracking how tiny fragments of matter emerge with ...

Physicists push thousands of atoms to a 'Schrödinger's cat' state — bringing the quantum world closer to reality than ever before

Researchers have demonstrated that a nanoparticle of 7,000 sodium atoms can act as a wave, creating a record-setting ...
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Record Smashed For Largest Object to Be Seen as a Quantum Wave

A microscopic clump of sodium has become the largest object ever to be observed as a wave, improving upon previous records by ...
Scientific American

Physicists trace particles back to the quantum vacuum

Scientists have found “strange quarks” that originated as virtual particles that sprang from nothing Quantum physics paints a ...
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World’s first particle collider shows matter emerges from ‘nothing’ in quantum vacuum

US physicists have shed light on a long-standing mystery after they captured rare experimental ...

A Fundamental Quantum Rule May Entangle the Entire Universe

To reach this conclusion, the researchers examined the most basic form of entanglement between identical particles using the concept of nonlocality introduced by physicist John Bell. While ...

Particle permutation task can be tackled by quantum but not classical computers, study finds

Quantum computers, systems that process information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, are expected to outperform ...
Nature

Schrödinger’s cat just got bigger: quantum physicists create largest ever ‘superposition’

Record-breaking experiment shows that a cluster of thousands of atoms can act like a wave as well as a particle.
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There’s a new record for the largest object placed in quantum interference – but it’s still teeny tiny

Researchers from the University of Vienna have reported quantum interference in metallic nanoparticles. These little spheres were made of between 5,000 and 10,000 sodium atoms and measured about 8 ...
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“Quantum squeezing” a nanoscale particle for the first time

A single nanoparticle made of glass (a white point near the center of the photo) is confined in an optical potential created with a focused laser beam. By detecting the light scattered by the ...