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The 2025 Nobel Prize in physics honors three quantum physicists—John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis—for their ...

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So how do you get an electron to float on top of helium? To find out, Ars spoke with Johannes Pollanen, the chief scientific officer of EeroQ, the company that accomplished the new work. He said that ...

Chuang-Wei Zhou, Yi-Tong Liu, Xue-Zhi Wang, De-Bo Hao, Jie Pang, Zhao-Xia Lian, Yong-Liang Huang, Yan Wu,* Yan Yan Li,* Xue ...