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Researchers at the University at Buffalo have enhanced a computationally efficient technique referred to as the truncated Wigner approximation (TWA), a type of physics shortcut that simplifies quantum ...

Nobel laureate Kip Thorne, who will deliver the Royal Irish Academy 2025 Hamilton Lecture, on his lifelong quest to ...

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This Star Trek concept ignited a dream that humans could one day travel faster than the speed of light. Now physicists are ...

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John Clarke, Michel Devoret, John Martinis awarded for developing 'next generation' of quantum technology, ubiquitous in ...

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis were recognized for work that made behaviors of the subatomic realm ...

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A clever mathematical tool known as virtual particles unlocks the strange and mysterious inner workings of subatomic ...