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Giant atoms 'trapped' for record time at room temperature

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Giant atoms 'trapped' for record time at room temperature

Putting unusually large atoms in a box with cold copper sides helped researchers control them for an unprecedented 50 minutes at room-temperature, an improvement necessary for building more powerful quantum computers and simulators

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Why John Stewart Bell has been haunting quantum mechanics for decades

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Light has been made into a fluid that simulates space-time

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IBM says it will build a practical quantum supercomputer by 2029

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Dane physicist Niels Bohr, pictured in his laboratory, received the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the structure of atoms.

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Ambitious book on quantum physics still fails to be accessible

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Quantum computers are on the edge of revealing new particle physics

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Best quantum 'transistor' yet could lead to more accurate computers

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Qubit breakthrough could make it easier to build quantum computers

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Do we have free will? Quantum experiments may soon reveal the answer

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Breaking encryption with a quantum computer just got 20 times easier

A quantum computer with a million qubits would be able to crack the vital RSA encryption algorithm, and while such machines don't yet exist, that estimate could still fall further

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Ultracold atoms have been 'hyperentangled' for the first time

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Are entangled qubits following a quantum Moore's law?

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How dark energy findings may inspire a new generation of physics nerds

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Radical photon idea could rewrite standard model of particle physics

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