A Quantum Theorem Has Killed Einstein's Idea of Reality
Albert Einstein spent decades defending a notion of reality independent of the observer against the paradoxes of quantum mechanics.… more →
The non-Hermitian skin effect, a phenomenon in which all eigenstates of a non-Hermitian system pile up at its boundaries, survives decoherence in simulations carried out with quantum devices. The robustness of the effect against environmental noise matters because many open systems, from photonic circuits to atomic chains, are intrinsically non-Hermitian and operate far from perfect isolation.
Albert Einstein spent decades defending a notion of reality independent of the observer against the paradoxes of quantum mechanics.… more →
A team has developed plasmonic biosensors based on X-shaped resonators capable of detecting cancer cells, combining the optical response of the device with machine learning algorit… more →
The strongest solar radiation storm in nearly 20 years pushed radiation levels past aviation safety thresholds at high altitude over northern Britain, Physics World reports.… more →
A study titled «Moment-based estimation for the Zipf law» proposes estimating the parameters of Zipf's law from statistical moments of the distribution.… more →
The contagion of behaviours, ideas and norms in social networks is not limited to humans: artificial agents —bots, recommendation algorithms, avatars— can amplify it markedly.… more →