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A hundred years ago this week, at the height of the quantum revolution, Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger submitted a manuscript for publication. Its centerpiece was an…

Schrödinger’s cat just got a little bit fatter. Physicists have created the largest ever ‘superposition’ — a quantum state in which an object exists in a…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Chevron and private equity firm Quantum Capital Group…

Women in the History of Quantum Physics: Beyond Knabenphysik Edited by Patrick Charbonneau et al. Cambridge Univ. Press (2025)Have you ever doubted your knowledge or expertise?…

Device preparation and electrical measurementsThe procedure for device fabrication from PdGa crystal using Ga-ion-based focused-ion beam technique is as follows32. A lamella was milled out of…

A quantum computer. The administration of US President Donald Trump has announced sizable spending prorammes for quantum information science and artificial intelligence.Credit: Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg/GettyFor much of…

Part of the IBM Quantum System Two computer.Credit: Angela Weiss/AFP via GettyClaims of leaps in quantum computing are made almost daily, but progress is hard to…

Physicists are questioning whether gravity can produce quantum entanglement between two masses.Credit: David Parker/Science Photo LibraryThe nature of gravity — and whether it can be reconciled…

Part of a cryostat in Google’s quantum-computing facility.Credit: Google Quantum AIGoogle researchers have made a fresh claim of quantum advantage — the ability of quantum computers…

October 22, 20254 min readGoogle Explores Quantum Chaos on Its Most Powerful Quantum Computer Chip“Quantum echoes” rippling through Google’s quantum computer chip Willow could lead to…