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 ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

Proposing a consciousness field extends the existing nature of the quantum field without contradicting it. Historically, quantum-field theory challenged the fabric of spacetime, suggesting that it ...

When you think of empty space, you almost certainly imagine a vacuum in which nothing interesting can ever happen. However, if we zoom in to tiny length scales where quantum effects start 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 ...

A team of researchers, focusing on a unique feature of quantum physics known as "vacuum fluctuations", has achieved a milestone in quantum technologies, demonstrating for the first time the control of ...

This phenomenon is called the magnetic field-induced superconductor-insulator transition and is a typical example of a quantum phase transition4 caused by quantum fluctuations.