A Stanford team has documented the first direct observation of quantum jumps of sound in a mechanical resonator, completing an arc of scientific exploration that started more than 100 years ago.

Stanford researchers have recorded the first real-time quantum jumps of sound, watching single phonons abruptly vanish from one energy state to another. The breakthrough could open new paths for ...

The result extends an experimental history stretching back more than a century. Quantum jumps were theorized in the early ...

A microscopic resonator stayed in one vibrational energy state before abruptly dropping to zero, exposing the quantum nature of sound.

Quantum advantage has always been a moving target.

Quantum computing has always struggled to achieve the necessary division of labor between processing and memory. While ...

Researchers at Harvard have demonstrated a way to protect quantum information using microscopic sound waves. By continuously surrounding a diamond-based qubit with mechanical vibrations, they extended ...

While conventional computers store information in the form of bits, fundamental pieces of logic that take a value of either 0 or 1, quantum computers are based on qubits. These can have a state that ...

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Companies investing in quantum security will have head start on one of the most complex infrastructure migrations of next ...

Stanford scientists captured a quantum jump in sound in real time, a step toward better quantum error detection, sensing, and ...