Quantum mechanics has long relied on complex numbers to describe the strange behavior of particles, from tunneling to ...

Quantum theory is often sold as a story about tiny particles, but its real disruption lands squarely on our everyday sense of what is real. At the smallest scales, the equations that power lasers, ...

What really happens in the quantum world? In this conversation, physicist Sean Carroll explores some of the deepest mysteries ...

Quantum mechanics is simultaneously beautiful and frustrating. Its explanatory power is unmatched. Armed with the machinery of quantum theory, we have unlocked the secrets of atomic power, divined the ...

Father of quantum recognised for ‘seminal contributions to large-scale secure quantum communications and scalable quantum ...

Everyone has their favourite example of a trick that reliably gets a certain job done, even if they don’t really understand why. Back in the day, it might have been slapping the top of your television ...

A rewrite of quantum mechanics that includes the force of gravity could finally achieve one of physicists’ biggest goals and reveal the ultimate fuzziness of time ...

In July 1925, physicist Werner Heisenberg wrote a letter to Wolfgang Pauli sharing his new ideas about what would eventually become known as quantum theory. A hundred years later, that theory has been ...

A team of Chinese scientists has developed the world's fastest quantum computer prototype, named Jiuzhang 4.0, capable of ...

For their latest magic trick, physicists have done the quantum equivalent of conjuring energy out of thin air. It’s a feat that seems to fly in the face of physical law and common sense. “You can’t ...

The question of how gravity interacts with the quantum world has long perplexed physicists, but a non-quantum theory of space ...