The same strange ingredient that might stitch together spacetime could also be humming inside your head. Physicists and neuroscientists are increasingly flirting with the idea that the universe and ...

A stable graphene signal suggests some quantum particles can remember past interactions, a key step toward quantum computing.

Quantum computers, systems that process information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, are expected to outperform ...

A hundred years ago this week, at the height of the quantum revolution, Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger submitted a ...

A century-old thought experiment on wave–particle duality is brought into the laboratory using a single trapped atom ...

An old puzzle in particle physics has been solved: How can quantum field theories be best formulated on a lattice to ...

Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

Electrons are usually described as particles, but in a rare quantum material, that picture completely breaks down ...

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

Since its development 100 years ago, quantum mechanics has revolutionized our understanding of nature, revealing a bizarre world in which an object can act like both waves and particles, and behave ...

A single nanoparticle made of glass (a white point near the center of the photo) is confined in an optical potential created with a focused laser beam. By detecting the light scattered by the ...

A new proposal makes the case that paraparticles — a new category of quantum particle — could be created in exotic materials. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...