Quantum field theory (QFT) is a physics framework that describes how particles and forces behave based on principles rooted ...

MIT physicists have performed an idealized version of one of the most famous experiments in quantum physics. Their findings ...

While quantum mechanics explains the small-scale, low-energy behavior of electrons, relativity becomes important when those same electrons move fast enough for strange effects like spin-orbit coupling ...

A team of physicists has experimentally uncovered what electrons do during quantum tunneling, revealing a surprising internal ...

Quantum mechanics also underlies innumerable technologies, including lasers, the transistors that are integral to smartphones and other miniaturized electronics, solar panels, LEDs, MRIs and the ...

For over a century, quantum mechanics and Einstein’s general relativity have stood as the cornerstones of modern physics, yet their unification remains one of science’s greatest challenges ...

Their innovative ‘matrix mechanics’ was set out in a long paper 4, commonly known as the Dreimännerarbeit (the three-man paper) submitted by Born, Heisenberg and Jordan in November 1925.

This quantum correction leads to a new recipe for making black holes and a hint at the path to quantum gravity and a unification of the two dominant theories of physics.

A century ago, science went quantum. To celebrate, physicists are throwing a global, year-long party. In 1925, quantum mechanics, the scientific theory that describes the unintuitive rules of ...

In this view, textbook formulations of quantum mechanics do not face a measurement ‘problem’. They make central use of observers and measurements — but so they must.