Destructive quantum interference improves single-molecule switch
New technique could allow for faster, smaller and more energy-efficient transistors
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Physicists place fresh limits on gravity’s role in wavefunction collapse
Dedicated underground experiments set new constraints on the Diósi–Penrose model of curvature-induced collapse
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A grasshopper’s quantum leap, mentoring medical physicists, extremely brilliant synchrotron
Making the connection between Bell’s theorem and a hopping insect
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How to time quantum tunnelling using atomic stopwatches, fitness trackers could help with breathing disorders
Huge exoplanets and quantum dots also get a mention in this week’s podcast
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Quantum-tunnelling time is measured using ultracold atoms
Spin rotation provides a stopwatch that measures millisecond journey
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Entanglement gets hot and messy
Contrary to expectations, this fragile quantum-mechanical phenomenon can survive at high temperatures and in a very chaotic environment
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Physicists take snapshots of quantum measurement
Ideal process leaves some superposition states intact
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Quantum diffusion of heavy defects defies Arrhenius’ law
“Massively heavy” atoms can move quantum mechanically within a crystalline material at cryogenic temperatures – a surprising result that contradicts currently-held notions
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Glass sphere is cooled to its motional quantum ground state
Quantum gravity and quantum fundamentals could be probed using new technique
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Survival of the fittest quantum states, scrutinizing antihydrogen, physics of chilled drinks
Our editors chat about quantum Darwinism, how to make and study atoms of antimatter and more
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