The quantum fluctuations in the field cause electron fluctuations in its position, and that causes the average Coulomb force to be slightly different from what it would be without these quantum ...

Vacuum is often thought of as empty, but in fact it is teeming with fleeting energy fluctuations—virtual photons popping in and out of existence that can interact with matter, giving rise to new, ...

In a new Physical Review Letters study, researchers propose an experimental approach that could finally determine whether ...

Quantum control: the experimental setup used to generate tunable random numbers from vacuum fluctuations. (Courtesy: Charles Roques-Carmes, Yannick Salamin) A new technique for exploiting the random ...

This unexpected phenomenon is known as the vacuum fluctuation field. But because these fluctuations of light energy are so small and fleeting in time, it is difficult to find ways for matter to ...

Princeton physicists developed a new experimental approach that precisely detects quantum mechanical fluctuations on the verge of a phase transition of a two-dimensional superconductor. The ...

The uncertainty principle forbids any quantum system from settling down into a perfectly quiet state of exactly zero energy. As a result, even the vacuum must always crackle with fluctuations in the ...

The value of the magnetic field when the crossover line reaches absolute zero likely corresponds to the quantum critical point where quantum fluctuations are strongest, and that point (white ...

"Despite extensive study of these quantum systems, the influence of a very weak bias field was unexplored," remarks Charles Roques-Carmes, a researcher in the study. "Our discovery of controllable ...

Both consciousness and the quantum field are fields of infinite and unbounded possibilities, challenging traditional views of reality. The long-sought-for proof of a unified field theory has ...