Researchers have demonstrated that a nanoparticle of 7,000 sodium atoms can act as a wave, creating a record-setting ...

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

The team have pushed the boundaries of quantum mechanics beyond what some thought possible. Now they want to go even further ...

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Quantum theory has long treated time as a silent backdrop, a parameter that never jitters even as particles flicker in and ...

PHYSICS HAS A problem. In general relativity, time is entwined with space. It is relative, depending on speed or gravity. In quantum mechanics, however, time is an absolute. It is a smooth background ...

Physicists have pushed one of the strangest ideas in science into new territory, holding tiny clumps of metal in a quantum limbo that recalls Schrödinger’s famous cat. Instead of a single atom or ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

The nature of quantum entanglement remains an outstanding problem in physics. But Albert Einstein's theories, along with insights from quantum computing, could finally put the mystery to rest. When ...

Killing horizon: a thought experiment suggests that the presence of a black hole can decohere a quantum superposition. (Courtesy: Shutterstock/Rost9) A new thought experiment suggests that the mere ...

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