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, ...

Even very slight environmental noise, such as microscopic vibrations or magnetic field fluctuations a hundred times smaller than Earth's magnetic field, can be catastrophic for quantum computing ...

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 ...

Illustration of photon-photon scattering in the laboratory. Two green petawatt lasers beams collide at the focus with a third red beam to polarise the quantum vacuum. This allows a fourth blue laser ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers experiment exploited an uncanny feature of the quantum vacuum: It isn't really empty at all.

Physicists have used an ion collider to see matter emerging from the vacuum after smashing together energetic subatomic particles. The vacuum was once thought to be “empty” or “nothing”. But the ...