A team at EPFL and the University of Arizona has discovered that making molecules bigger and more flexible can actually extend the life of quantum charge flow, a finding that could help shape the ...

Quantum batteries have been a theoretical concept since 2013, but a group of Australian scientists just created a working ...

In standard quantum theory, the causal order of occurrence between events is prescribed and must be definite. This has been maintained in all conventional operation scenarios for quantum batteries, ...

Batteries could charge up by relying on a quantum effect known as indefinite causal order, whereby the laws of cause and effect are scrambled and power can move through the system quicker. When you ...

A new cooling technique that utilizes a single species of trapped ion for both computing and cooling could simplify the use of quantum charge-coupled devices (QCCDs), potentially moving quantum ...

Quantum batteries could charge more efficiently by skirting conventional rules of causality. Yuanbo Chen at the University of Tokyo and his colleagues analysed whether a particularly counterintuitive ...

A research team has developed a new technique to rapidly and accurately determine the charge state of electrons confined in semiconductor quantum dots -- fundamental components of quantum computing ...

Experiments have provided the first direct evidence that electricity seems to flow through 'strange metals' in an unusual liquid-like form. True to form, a "strange metal" quantum material proved ...

Quantum batteries of the future could gain charge by breaking the conventional laws of causality, research has shown. Conventional batteries charge by converting electrical energy into chemical energy ...