In the future, quantum computers are anticipated to solve problems once thought unsolvable, from predicting the course of ...

A team of quantum physicists has taken a concept that once lived purely in equations and turned it into hardware reality, ...

A single atom as a movable slit: Researchers realize Einstein's thought experiment in original form, observing ...

Quantum theory and Einstein's theory of general relativity are two of the greatest successes in modern physics. Each works ...

For more than a century, the double-slit experiment has been the sharpest test of what reality is made of, and of whether ...

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 ...

Physicists in China have brought one of Einstein’s thought experiments into reality—but not quite with the outcome he hoped ...

Rice University scientists have discovered a way to make tiny vibrations, called phonons, interfere with each other more strongly than ever before. Using a special sandwich of silver, graphene, and ...

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In a striking display of quantum physics, a team of researchers has recreated one of science’s most legendary experiments—with unprecedented precision. At MIT, scientists cooled thousands of atoms to ...