Quantum mechanics remains mysterious as it turns 100, and a landmark survey reveals physicists are still sharply divided over ...

The theory of quantum mechanics has transformed daily life since being proposed a century ago, yet how it works remains a ...

While quantum mechanics explains the small-scale, low-energy behavior of electrons, relativity becomes important when those same electrons move fast enough for strange effects like spin-orbit coupling ...

Unless you're a physicist, you've probably only encountered quantum mechanics on TV.And even when it was explained, you might've still been a little confused.The field of quantum mechanics was ...

"This work is a step toward understanding how quantum mechanics and gravity work together, a major unsolved problem in physics." The first step toward quantum gravity, the "holy grail of physics ...

Quantum computing just got a significant boost thanks to researchers at the University of Osaka, who developed a much more efficient way to create "magic states" a key component for ...

According to scientific legend, quantum mechanics was born on the island of Helgoland in 1925. A hundred years later, physicists are still debating the true nature of this strange theory - and ...

The curious minds at Aperture explore how quantum mechanics challenges our understanding of reality at the smallest scales.

The quantum mechanics of chiral spin selectivity Researchers have developed what amounts to a programmable platform for quantum chirality that could provide new approaches to explore interacting ...

Columnist and Physics Why John Stewart Bell has been haunting quantum mechanics for decades The “Bell test” was devised in the 1960s to uncover what’s going on in the quantum world, but it ...

A team including CU PREP researchers and scientists from CU Boulder and NIST have built the first random number generator using quantum entanglement to produce verifiable random numbers. The group ...

Read more Return to Helgoland: celebrating 100 years of quantum mechanics The final after-dinner speaker was science journalist Philip Ball, who explained how quantum theory developed in 1924–25 in ...