Quantum computers need special materials called topological superconductors—but they’ve been notoriously difficult to create. Researchers have now shown they can trigger this exotic state by subtly ...

Artistic illustration of a topological exciton insulator: Excitons condense in the bulk of the material, forming a collective insulating phase, while topologically protected edge modes propagate ...

Researchers have identified a class of quantum materials, called topological semimetals, that can split water into hydrogen fuel using nothing but sunlight, sidestepping the expensive platinum-based ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Particle line explosion A quantum state of matter has appeared in a material where physicists thought it would be impossible, ...

Momentum is building for quantum computing and some observers say that a usable, fault-tolerant quantum system could appear in the next few years. We have written ...

Scientists have developed a new way to read the hidden states of Majorana qubits, which store information in paired quantum modes that resist noise. The results confirm their protected nature and show ...

Quantum physics has quietly been rewriting the rulebook on matter, and the latest breakthroughs suggest that the so‑called fifth state is no longer a niche laboratory curiosity. From orbiting ...

Scientists have finally figured out how to read ultra-secure Majorana qubits—bringing robust quantum computing a big step closer. “This is a crucial advance,” says Ramón Aguado, a CSIC researcher at ...

Researchers have demonstrated a new way to read Majorana qubits, highly stable but notoriously difficult-to-measure quantum ...

Quantum physics tells us that particles behave like waves that therefore their position is space is unknown. Yet in many situations, it still works remarkably well to think of particles in a classical ...