The fabric of spacetime is roiling with vibrating quantum fields, known as vacuum energy. It's right there, everywhere we look. But could we ever get anything out of it?

The vacuum of space is a chaotic sea of quantum fluctuations. Some have said that this vacuum energy can be harvested to build our future starship engines. It can't. But it is technically possible ...

Jun 05, 2025 Physicists recreate extreme quantum vacuum effects Physicists have successfully simulated how light interacts with empty space - a phenomenon once thought to belong purely to the realm of ...

When a guitar string is plucked or a playground swing is set in motion, the movement gradually fades away. Physicists call ...

Nuclear physicists create scalable quantum circuits to simulate fundamental physics Researchers developed and executed algorithms for preparing the quantum vacuum and hadrons on more than 100 ...

Rice researchers and collaborators have developed a new cavity design that selectively enhances the quantum vacuum fluctuations of circularly polarized light in a single direction, achieving ...

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 ...

For almost a hundred years, physicists suspected the answer was yes, but they couldn’t describe it properly without breaking ...

A team of Johns Hopkins engineers has developed a new, more powerful method to observe molecular vibrations, an advance that ...

IonQ, a leader in the quantum computing and networking industries, announced the completion of its next-generation ion trap vacuum package prototype intended to realize smaller, more compact, room ...

The fabric of spacetime is roiling with vibrating quantum fields, known as the vacuum energy. It’s right there, everywhere we look. Could we ever get anything out of it? We can even calculate th ...