A record-breaking experiment shows that a cluster of thousands of atoms can act like a wave as well as a particle ...

Researchers from the University of Vienna and the University of Duisburg-Essen showed that metallic ...

Can a small lump of metal be in a quantum state that extends over distant locations? A research team at the University of Vienna answers this question with a resounding yes. In the journal Nature, ...

For many of us, advanced physics can be tough to understand to begin with, which makes it all the more impressive whenever someone earns a Nobel Prize for advancing the field even further. The latest ...

For more than a century, modern physics has rested on two towering frameworks that do not quite agree with each other.

Experiments reveal that metallic nanoparticles thousands of atoms wide can exist in quantum superposition, providing a ...

John Clarke, Michel H Devoret and John M. Martinis are announced this year's Nobel Prize winners in Physics, by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences at a press conference in Stockhom, Sweden October ...

A hundred years ago, quantum mechanics was a radical theory that baffled even the brightest minds. Today, it's the backbone ...

By bringing the long-standing and opposing views of quantum mechanics together to form a single cohesive theory, a research ...

In 1925, German physicist Werner Heisenberg published a paper on quantum mechanics, upending classical physics and launching the world into the quantum age.

Cosmology and quantum physics both offer tantalizing possibilities that we inhabit just one reality among many. But testing ...

STOCKHOLM - U.S.-based scientists John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for "experiments that revealed quantum physics in action," paving the way for the ...