First proposed in 1935 by the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger, "Schrödinger's cat" was designed to highlight the ...

Researchers at the University of Basel have shown that quantum systems can have antagonistic interactions, too—one agent ...

Heisenberg, who would later win the Nobel Prize for Physics, famously came up with quantum mechanics on a two-week vacation ...

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have created a new thermometer using atoms boosted to such high energy levels that they are a thousand times larger than normal.

The phenomenon of quantum tunneling transforms our understanding of particle behavior, enabling breakthroughs in ...

Important material properties can be explained at the level of quantum physics - for example, whether a material conducts ...

Did these researchers truly just crack our fundamental concepts of (quantum) physics wide open? As it turns out, not really. Much of the confusion stems from the fact that photons aren’t little ...

UNSW engineers have demonstrated a well-known quantum thought experiment in the real world. Their findings deliver a new and ...