The Hill may be compensated and/or receive an affiliate commission if you buy through our links. Vacuum cleaners have been doing their job cleaning up all the dust and loose debris that accumulates in ...

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 study published in Nature Physics, researchers have demonstrated that quantum light, particularly bright squeezed ...

Strong laser fields were supposed to be the cleanest way to watch electrons move, yet the latest experiments show that the ...

Heat isn't supposed to move like this. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When you touch a hot surface, you're feeling movement. If ...

The Dynamical Casimir Effect (DCE) encompasses a striking quantum phenomenon whereby rapid, nonadiabatic modifications of boundary conditions produce pairs of real photons from the quantum vacuum – a ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, a team of researchers at the Rice University have reported the first direct observation of a surprising quantum phenomenon known as a superradiant phase transition (SRPT ...

Quantum annealer has simulated the fundamental process of false vacuum decay, opening the window to the understanding of interactions between true vacuum bubbles. Credit: Professor Zlatko Papic / ...

Colliding light Illustration of photon–photon scattering. Two green petawatt lasers beams collide at the focus. A third red beam polarizes the quantum vacuum. This allows a fourth blue laser beam to ...