This is the International Year of the Quantum, celebrating quantum science and its many applications. It also marks the centenary of Werner Heisenberg’s seminal work in modern physics. In recent years ...

Trapping ultracold atoms with laser light let researchers magnify and then image the wave functions of atoms that were ...

This article explores how our understanding of the universe has evolved—from the scale of everyday experience down to the ...

Quantum mechanics theory predicts that, in addition to exhibiting particle-like behavior, particles of all sizes can also have wave-like properties. These properties can be represented using the wave ...

For centuries, scientific progress has depended on more precise tools for measuring the world around us. Galileo’s telescope ...

Paris (AFP) – The theory of quantum mechanics has transformed daily life since being proposed a century ago, yet how it works remains a mystery -- and physicists are deeply divided about what is ...

In 1931, Harvey Elliott White developed a device that traced out the shapes of electron clouds by approximating solutions to ...

Quantum annealer D-Wave’s Advantage2 was one of the processors used to simulate quantum magnetic phase transitions. (Courtesy: D-Wave Systems) D-Wave Systems has used quantum annealing to do ...

The Irish mathematician and physicist William Rowan Hamilton, who was born 220 years ago last month, is famous for carving ...