Scientists may have finally unlocked the unusual role quasiparticles known as "anyons" play in a pair of quantum experiments ...

In the past year, two separate experiments in two different materials captured the same confounding scenario: the coexistence ...

"Dark photon" theory says light's interference patterns may emerge from quantum particles, not waves, upending centuries of ...

Does the universe notice that we're paying attention to a quantum experiment? The answer goes against everything we thought we knew.

Laurent Simons, 15, already earned a PhD in quantum physics, aiming to extend human life with ultracold science and AI ...

Using ultracold atoms and laser light, researchers recreated the behavior of a Josephson junction—an essential component of ...

As strange and unique as the laws of the quantum realm appear in our everyday experience, every now and then experiments catch sight of phenomena that seem both alien and yet eerily familiar. For the ...

As physicists search for a theory of quantum gravity, new results show that classical gravity can still interact with quantum fields to allow matter to become entangled. When you purchase through ...

Learning how a physical system behaves usually means repeating measurements and using statistics to uncover patterns. That ...

For more than a century, thermodynamics has described how heat flows and engines run, while quantum mechanics has ruled the ...

There is a glaring gap in our knowledge of the physical world: none of our well-established theories describe gravity’s quantum nature. Yet physicists expect that this quantum nature is essential for ...

A thought experiment that was at the heart of an argument between famed physicists Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr in 1927 has finally been made real. Its findings elucidate one of the core mysteries ...