Welcome to the latest Physics World Quantum Briefing, which commemorates the centenary of quantum mechanics and celebrates the 2025 International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (IYQ). This ...

There’s only a few days left in the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, but we’re still finding plenty to celebrate here at Physics World HQ thanks to a long list of groundbreaking ...

Alyssa Ney is professor and chair of metaphysics at the Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, and Religious Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Germany. This week, physicists are ...

Faisal Islam gets rare access to Willow - Google's quantum computer.

No single country or region dominates quantum-physics research in the Nature Index; institutions from China, Europe and the United States all feature in the top 10. The University of Science and ...

Physicists are preparing an experiment that sounds like science fiction: a device designed to snare individual particles of ...

A recent study has unraveled some of the secrets concealed within the entangled web of quantum systems. In the intricate world of quantum physics, where particles interact in ways that seem to defy ...

This year will be a big one for quantum computing, at least according to the United Nations: 2025 is officially the “International Year of Quantum Science and Technology,” a worldwide initiative to ...

For decades, scientists, philosophers and science fiction writers have been fascinated by the idea of parallel universes — realms that may exist beyond our own, each potentially with its own version ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to a trio of scientists – a Briton, a Frenchman and an American – for their ground-breaking discoveries in the field of quantum mechanics. John Clarke, ...

Quantum computing represents an existential threat to modern cryptographic defenses, particularly for non-human identities—machines, IoT devices, workloads, applications, services and APIs—which rely ...