According to a new theory, our universe developed from a “pre-inflationary multiverse” made of particles in quantum superposition.

Physicists have long struggled to unite quantum mechanics—the theory governing tiny particles—with Einstein’s theory of ...

Researchers at the University of Waterloo have produced experimental evidence that quantum-level effects can alter the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. person's face blurred A microscopic clump of sodium has become the largest object ever to be observed as a wave, improving upon ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two Physical Review A papers outline how anyons could exist in one dimension, and how cold-atom experiments might spot them.

More than a century before quantum mechanics was born, Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton stumbled onto an idea that would quietly foreshadow one of the deepest truths in physics. While ...

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have uncovered experimental evidence that particles of matter emerging from energetic subatomic smashups retain a key ...

Quantum mechanical effects are known to be easily disrupted by disturbances from the surrounding environment, commonly referred to as noise. To minimize these disturbances, physicists often study ...

Research Ireland-backed Equal1 is bringing quantum computing out of the lab and aiming for widespread commercial deployment ...

The magnum opus of particle physics is far from complete, requiring physicists to devise many alternatives—some weirder than ...