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Can Black Holes Die?
Black holes are not necessarily eternal in the simplest quantum description. Stephen Hawking's work showed that quantum effects near an event horizon allow black holes t…
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What Is the Higgs Boson?
The Higgs boson is the quantum excitation of the Higgs field, a field that fills space and is central to how elementary particles acquire mass in the Standard Model.
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What Is the Standard Model of Particle Physics?
The Standard Model is the quantum theory that describes known elementary particles and the electromagnetic, weak and strong interactions among them, but it does not incl…
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What Is Quantum Advantage?
Quantum advantage means demonstrating a computation in which a quantum computer delivers a capability beyond the best practical classical approach, with evidence strong…
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How Does Quantum Error Correction Work?
Quantum error correction protects fragile quantum information by encoding one logical qubit across several physical qubits and repeatedly measuring error information wit…
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What Is the Uncertainty Principle?
The uncertainty principle is a quantum-mechanical limit on how sharply certain pairs of properties, such as position and momentum, can be defined together in the same st…
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What Is Wave-Particle Duality?
Wave-particle duality describes how quantum objects such as photons and electrons can produce wave-like interference in some experiments while being detected as discrete…
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What Is Quantum Entanglement?
Quantum entanglement is a relationship between quantum systems in which their joint state cannot be described as independent states for each part, producing correlations…
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What Is Quantum Physics?
Quantum physics describes matter and energy at atomic and subatomic scales, where probabilities, quantization, superposition, and wave behavior become essential.
Computer science
What Is a Qubit? How Qubits Work in Quantum Computing
A qubit, or quantum bit, is the basic unit of quantum information. Qubits use quantum states with amplitude and phase, can become entangled, and must be controlled befor…
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Quantum soul: The boundary between science and metaphysics
Humans have always been curious, seeking to explore the origins and end of life. Do we have souls? What is a soul? Where does the soul go after death?
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For the first time, scientists have captured images of quantum entanglement in real time.
A collaboration between scientists from the University of Ottawa and Sapienza University has captured for the first time the dance of two quantumly entangled photons in…
Space science
The nearly 50-year-old black hole paradox has been solved.
Hawking's paradox states that in the process of disappearing, black holes destroy all information about their origin, contrary to the rules of quantum physics.
New technology
The most powerful computer in the world
Quantum computing systems with hundreds of thousands to millions of qubits are being developed by IBM and Google, expected to be completed in the next 10 years.
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How do real life invisibility cloaks work?
At its core, stealth technology relies on manipulating light waves, which are responsible for our visual perception.