Shi-Yao Zhu

Exotic quantum states typically exist only in the chill of liquid helium. But here, scientists replaced cooling with a light lattice, where atoms move in unison like an orchestra. The collective glow drowns out random noise, making it impossible for chaos to break through. They not only reproduced t

Quantum noise is like a balloon: you can squeeze it by redistributing uncertainty. Instead of light, scientists used magnons—waves in a magnetic material. A millimeter-sized sphere of a special crystal was coupled with a qubit and cooled until the waves inside almost disappeared. A special measureme