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Scanning electron microscope image of an ultra-coherent superconducting electro-mechanical system. Credit: Amir Youssefi (EPFL) Over the past decade, scientists have made tremendous progress in ...

PASADENA, Calif.—Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have proposed a new paradigm that should allow scientists to observe quantum behavior in small mechanical systems.

Researchers at ETH Zurich say they have succeeding in demonstrating that quantum mechanical objects that are far apart can be much more strongly correlated with each other than is possible in ...

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Over the past decade, scientists have made tremendous progress in generating quantum phenomena in mechanical systems. What seemed impossible only fifteen years ago has now become a reality, as ...