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Quantum speed limits on operator flows and correlation functions
Nicoletta Carabba1, Niklas Hörnedal1,2, and Adolfo del Campo1,31Department of Physics and Materials Science, University of Luxembourg, L-1511 Luxembourg, G. D. Luxembourg2Fysikum, Stockholms Universitet,...
The Year in Math
IntroductionWe can think of a mathematician as a kind of archaeologist, painstakingly brushing dust off the hidden structures of the world. But the structures...
Quantum signatures in nonlinear gravitational waves
Thiago Guerreiro1, Francesco Coradeschi2, Antonia Micol Frassino3, Jennifer Rittenhouse West4, and Enrico Junior Schioppa51Department of Physics, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio...
Quasars, exoplanets and the atmospheres of distant worlds: more on the first results from the JWST
A year after its launch, astronomers are revealing the secrets of the universe, as the first scientific results from observations made...
‘Nasty’ Geometry Breaks Decades-Old Tiling Conjecture
IntroductionOne of the oldest and simplest problems in geometry has caught mathematicians off guard — and not for the first time.
Since antiquity, artists and...
Peering back to before the cosmic dawn: astronomers unveil first results from the JWST
Just under a year after this incredible mission took off, astronomers have been meeting this...
She Turns Fluids Into ‘Black Holes’ and ‘Inflating Universes’
IntroductionThere are times and places in the universe that experiments cannot reach, and may never be able to reach. What exactly goes on inside...
Physicists Simulate a Simplified Wormhole on Google’s Quantum Computer
Wormholes might sound like something that belongs in a Star Trek episode rather than a research paper, but scientists just simulated one on Google’s...
Physicists Create a Wormhole Using a Quantum Computer
IntroductionPhysicists have purportedly created the first-ever wormhole, a kind of tunnel theorized in 1935 by Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen that leads from one...
This Amazing Interactive Map of the Universe Takes You All the Way Back to the Big Bang
The early 2020s have been a chaotic time, with seemingly one crisis after another befalling humanity: the Covid-19 pandemic, inflation and supply chain upheaval,...
‘Great observatories’ – the next generation of NASA’s space telescopes, and their impact on the next century of observational astronomy
Astronomers have turned their eye towards the future following the US National Academies’ latest decadal survey of astronomy and astrophysics, which...
Black holes could reveal their quantum-superposition states, new calculations reveal
Quantum superposition is not just a property of subatomic particles but also of the most...