Huge exoplanets and quantum dots also get a mention in this week’s podcast
Read article: How to time quantum tunnelling using atomic stopwatches, fitness trackers could help with breathing disorders
Spin rotation provides a stopwatch that measures millisecond journey
Read article: Quantum-tunnelling time is measured using ultracold atoms
Contrary to expectations, this fragile quantum-mechanical phenomenon can survive at high temperatures and in a very chaotic environment
Read article: Entanglement gets hot and messy
Ideal process leaves some superposition states intact
Read article: Physicists take snapshots of quantum measurement
“Massively heavy” atoms can move quantum mechanically within a crystalline material at cryogenic temperatures – a surprising result that contradicts currently-held notions
Read article: Quantum diffusion of heavy defects defies Arrhenius’ law
Quantum gravity and quantum fundamentals could be probed using new technique
Read article: Glass sphere is cooled to its motional quantum ground state
Our editors chat about quantum Darwinism, how to make and study atoms of antimatter and more
Read article: Survival of the fittest quantum states, scrutinizing antihydrogen, physics of chilled drinks
Physicists use nitrogen-vacancy centres to investigate the origin of classical reality
Read article: Quantum Darwinism spotted in diamond spins
We discuss developments in real-world quantum teleportation, how government policies can affect start-ups and the take-up of alternative technologies to coal
Read article: Quantum teleportation, FLASH radiotherapy and the end of electricity from coal
Second law of thermodynamics holds at the microscopic scale
Read article: Arrow of time points forward in quantum systems
