Quantum physics is the realm of the strange. And one of the strangest discoveries in the field is also one of the most fundamental: Particles fired at barriers with two slits in them can act like ...

Researchers have shown that surprisingly large metal particles can behave according to quantum mechanics, existing in ...

A new study by scientists in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) shows that when a ...

The acoustic properties of an ultracold fermion gas have been measured either side of the superfluid transition temperature in an experiment that has been described as “near perfect” and “beautiful”.

A new analysis reveals what happens when very short or narrow electron beams encounter a particle. The research is published ...

Physicists have proposed a way to extract the internal quantum states of electron wave packets by analyzing how those packets ...

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Patterns in chaos have been proven, in the incredibly tiny quantum realm, by an international team co-led by UC Santa Cruz physicist Jairo Velasco, Jr. In a new paper published on November 27 in ...

The quantum revolution in physics — whose 100th anniversary we have just celebrated — taught us that at the most basic level ...