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By adapting an algorithm from the 1980s to mathematical objects called tensor networks, researchers at the Flatiron Institute show that classical computers can tackle a class of problems previously claimed to be solvable only by quantum computers

Quantum mechanics’ famous measurement problem — illustrated by Schrödinger’s cat — may be one step closer to an experimental answer. Using the ultra-sensitive XENONnT dark matter detector deep underground in Italy, an international team has placed the strongest constraints yet on “collapse models,” theories proposing that quantum superpositions spontaneously collapse due to interactions with a noise field or gravity.

A new approach to looking at solids provides theoretical limits on some of their properties

A new method for precisely moving columns of individual atoms within a material could give rise to exotic quantum properties

Researchers at The University of Manchester’s National Graphene Institute have shown that electrons in ultra-clean graphene can be steered with high precision while keeping their spin information intact, a key requirement for future low power electronics and quantum devices.

Electrons can arrange into crystalline patterns that accumulate defects as they melt; controlling the degree of melting may advance superconductors and artificial neurons