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Physics World is celebrating the 2025 International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (IYQ), which aims to raise global awareness of quantum physics and its applications. Stayed tuned to Physics World and our international partners throughout the year for our coverage of the IYQ. You can also see how IOP Publishing's quantum-related journals are marking the year through ongoing activities.

Grete Hermann: the quantum physicist who challenged Werner Heisenberg and John von Neumann

Curiouser and curiouser: delving into quantum Cheshire cats

Iulia Georgescu tumbles down the rabbit-hole to explore the curiosity that is a quantum Cheshire cat

The quantum Zeno effect: how the ‘measurement problem’ went from philosophers’ paradox to physicists’ toolbox

A stand-out example of quantum weirdness is turning out to be surprisingly useful, as Margaret Harris explains

William Phillips: Nobel laureate talks about his passion for quantum physics

Laser-cooling expert looks to the future of quantum technologies

People in quantum science and technology

A theoretical physicist’s bucket list, 10 years later: Jim Gates on the graviton, quantum information and the scientific climate in the US

Muhammad Hamza Waseem standing in a bookshop

Ask me anything: Muhammad Hamza Waseem – ‘The most important skill is creativity’

Anna Grassellino talking about their goals

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Fermilab’s Anna Grassellino: eyeing the prize of quantum advantage

Quantum jobs and careers

Here are some of the many quantum careers we have featured on Physics World. For more jobs and career information, check out the new Physics World Jobs hub.

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Don’t have a PhD? The quantum industry still wants you

Group of children listening to an adult explaining some examples of technology on the table between them

Preparing the next generation of US physicists for a quantum future

Emily Edwards and Claudia Fracchiolla discuss challenges and opportunities in quantum education

Taking the leap – how to prepare for your future in the quantum workforce

Katherine Skipper and Tushna Commissariat interview three experts in the quantum arena, to get their advice on careers in the quantum market

Big Science, Quantum Advantage

Take a look at our free-to-read digital issue of Big Science, Quantum Advantage. Big-science facilities might be best known for their work in fundamental physics, but some of them – in particular, high-energy physics labs – are starting to flex their muscles when it comes to quantum physics too. Read more in this special report.

Latest quantum research

Artist's image of a black hole, depicted as a dark dip in a blue-lit grid with light streaking towards it

New research suggests gravity might emerge from quantum information theory

Theoretical study offers novel insights into the nature of spacetime and matter interactions

Optical micrograph of the quantum transducer

Quantum transducer enables optical control of a superconducting qubit

Physicists create the first device that can control a superconducting microwave qubit using only light

Could an extra time dimension reconcile quantum entanglement with local causality?

“Toy model” could be tested using photons

Photo of Qimiao Si working in his office

Strange metals get their strangeness from quantum entanglement

Physicists use the concept of quantum Fisher information to explain poor electrical conductivity in these unusual materials

Artist's illustration of a quantum Schrodinger's cat inside a box, with the box and background mostly a cool blue colour and the cat and some of its surroundings a hotter neon green. The box is made from circuitry and parts of the cat glow brightly, as if part of a heat map.

Schrödinger cat states like it hot

Superpositions persist at temperatures up to 1.8 K – practically oven-like by quantum standards

Optical lattice simulating a superconductor

Bilayer optical lattices could unravel the secret of high-temperature superconductivity

Proposal would explore macroscopic quantum phenomena in many-body systems

Explore more in quantum science and technology

Alternate quantum realities: what if Heisenberg stayed at home?

Kevlin Henney discusses his new quantum-themed flash fiction and the power of short stories

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India must boost investment in quantum technologies to become world leader, says report

First report by the National Quantum Mission also warns that India needs to improve its quantum security

Woman pointing a pen at a computer screen covered in graphs

On the path towards a quantum economy

Feasibility studies are enabling industry experts to collaborate with quantum specialists to discover the potential benefits of quantum computing for their businesses and their customers

A ball of red, yellow and blue ribbons with arrows on the ends that point in different directions

Quantum Mpemba effect appears in a real experimental system

Trapped ion prepared in a specific pure state follows an exponentially quicker path to relaxation

In this artist's depiction of a trapped-ion quantum computer, green, triangular-faceted blobs hover in a ring above a gold surface divided into compartments

Quantum computer generates strings of certifiably random numbers

Quantinuum’s trapped-ion computer has also been used to study problems in quantum magnetism and knot theory

the interior of a vacuum chamber during a scattering experiment. The detector is shown as a grey box at top right, while the Au(111) gold surface is shown in yellow. Lines running from the surface to the detector indicate the path of the scattering molecular beam.

Quantum interference observed in collisions between methane molecules and gold surface

Study has important implications for our understanding of surface chemistry, say researchers

A bunch of golden dots form a wave against a black background

New entanglement approach could boost photonic quantum computing

Harnessing the mathematical concept of non-Abelian holonomy makes it possible to entangle photons deterministically, say theorists

Photo of Stephanie Wehner and colleagues

Operating system for quantum networks is a first

QNodeOS could help make quantum computation more accessible

Microsoft’s Chetan Nayak on topological qubits, the physics of bigger splashes

Manu jumping and Majorana zero modes feature in this podcast

Schematic diagram of the Zuchongzhi-3 chip showing four layers. The top layer is silver and has the chip's name written on it in Chinese characters. Below it is a layer that resembles neon turquoise mesh. The third layer is a circuit board. The bottom layer is a silvery substrate.

Quantum computers extend lead over classical machines in random circuit sampling

New Zuchongzhi 3.0 processor can solve in minutes a problem that would take a supercomputer billions of years

D-Wave Systems claims quantum advantage, but some physicists are not convinced

Firm’s quantum annealer simulates magnetic phase transitions

Artur Ekert explains how Albert Einstein and John Bell inspired quantum cryptography

Our podcast guest is the theoretical crypto-physicist Artur Ekert

Group of people and equipment on the deck of a boat

How civil engineering is bringing quantum physics down to earth

Quantum-based gravity sensors have probed fundamental physics, and they could transform our understanding of what’s just under our feet

Quantum behaviour in brain neurons looks theoretically possible

A study probing quantum phenomena in brain neurons could provide fresh insight into how our brains function

Magnetically launched atoms sense motion

New method in atom interferometry is used for inertial sensing

Joint APS meeting brings together the physics community

The APS has combined its March Meeting and April Meeting into the Global Physics Summit, the largest physics conference in the world

Photo of the Ocelot quantum computer chip, a grey and black square with circuits etched into it, shown standing on its edge

Cat qubits open a faster track to fault-tolerant quantum computing

Amazon team claims its Ocelot chip could speed up development by 3‒5 years

New materials for quantum technology, how ultrasound can help detect breast cancer

NPL’s Daniel Sarno and IIT Bombay’s Bhaskaran Muralidharan are our guests

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