Erwin Schrödinger, a theoretical physicist steeped in the philosophy of Schopenhauer and the Upanishads, delivered a series ...

Strange metals have baffled scientists for decades, but a new breakthrough from Rice University researchers offers a major clue: at a specific quantum tipping point, electrons in these materials ...

What happens when a quantum physicist is frustrated by the limitations of quantum mechanics when trying to study densely ...

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory discovered a new phase a matter called ...

He suggested that these quantum effects might be playing a role in maintaining the genetic stability in living organisms.

Modeling the quantum world is far from easy. The physical peculiarities of quantum mechanics are far removed from the world ...

I began graduate study in 1975, the midpoint of the first 100 years of quantum mechanics, 50 years ago and 50 years after the ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mark A. Novotny, a Mississippi State University William L. Giles Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy, will explore the complex world of quantum mechanics and its rapidly ...

Physics and poetry both distil complexity into clarity. Learn how poetic structure can shape and express scientific ideas.

Previously, “both physicists and neuroscientists have largely dismissed the relevance of standard quantum mechanics to neuronal processes, as quantum effects are thought to disappear at the large ...

To get around the constraints of quantum physics, researchers have built a new acoustic system to study the way the minuscule atoms of condensed matter talk together. They hope to one day build an ...