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

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

Concerns that quantum computers may start easily hacking into previously secure communications has motivated researchers to ...

If true, the idea would blow past one of physics’ most sacred limits: that parallel versions of reality can never talk to ...

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

EPFL physicists have found a way to measure the time involved in quantum events and found it depends on the symmetry of the ...

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

A sensitive matter-wave interferometer measuring moiré fringes offers force sensitivity comparable to quantum interference ...

Can a small lump of metal be in a quantum state that extends over distant locations? A research team at the University of Vienna answers this question with a resounding yes. In the journal Nature, ...

For many of us, advanced physics can be tough to understand to begin with, which makes it all the more impressive whenever someone earns a Nobel Prize for advancing the field even further. The latest ...

In 1971, graduate student Stuart Freedman and postdoctoral fellow John Clauser took over a room in the sub-basement of Birge Hall at the University of California, Berkeley, and built an experiment ...