Researchers have identified a particle that doesn’t obey time symmetry, meaning its behavior changes depending on whether time moves forward or backward. This breaks one of the most fundamental ...

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New research from Griffith University's Centre for Quantum Dynamics is broadening perspectives on time and space. In a paper published in the prestigious journal Proceedings of the Royal Society A, ...

When you call up driving directions on your smartphone or program a destination into your car’s global positioning system (GPS), satellites in space are called upon to pinpoint your vehicle’s location ...

You know you can’t un-bake bread. If you drop a glass and it breaks, you can’t reassemble it. For macroscopic objects in our world, time can’t be reversed. But for two particles, the situation is ...

Researchers say they have observed parity-time symmetry breaking for the first time in an experiment. The result was obtained using a “dilation” technique on a single-spin system – a nitrogen-vacancy ...

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Quantum computers promise to solve problems that overwhelm classical machines, but their most stubborn obstacle is noise that ...