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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Columnist and Physics Why John Stewart Bell has been haunting quantum mechanics for decades The “Bell test” was devised in the 1960s to uncover what’s going on in the quantum world, but it ...

According to scientific legend, quantum mechanics was born on the island of Helgoland in 1925. A hundred years later, physicists are still debating the true nature of this strange theory - and ...

Now, scientists at Washington University in St. Louis and Texas A&M University are turning to quantum mechanics to solve these laser-based shortcomings. The research will be conducted thanks to a ...

His latest accolade, announced last April, is the most lucrative in all of science: a Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, worth $3 million, in recognition of ’t Hooft’s myriad ...