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 ...

"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 ...

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 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 ...

A computational paradigm that can accurately simulate interactions between powerful laser beams and quantum fluctuations in a vacuum has been unveiled by researchers in the UK and Portugal. ...

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 ...

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 ...