Amid the many mysteries of quantum physics, subatomic particles don't always follow the rules of the physical world. They can exist in two places at once, pass through solid barriers and even ...

Physicists have discovered a strange new state of quantum matter in which ultracold atoms defy familiar organizational rules, forming a highly excited yet surprisingly orderly configuration called a ...

Ever since quantum mechanics first described particles, like electrons, as rippling waves, researchers have wondered if those ...

Physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1933. (National Digital Archives, Poland/Public Domain) For more than 80 years, a manuscript ...

An unpublished, undated manuscript belonging to Erwin Schrödinger lies in the Austrian Central Library ...

Northwestern physicists created a one-positron quantum cyclotron, resolving individual changes in the antimatter particle’s ...

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A pair of identical particles swapping places sounds like a small move. In quantum physics, it is a defining one. In everyday three-dimensional space, that swap only comes in two flavors. Either the ...

Any standard textbook will tell you that the dynamics of quantum mechanics are based on two axioms—mathematical rules that ...

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In a study, physicists now observed a class of quantum particles called fractional excitons, which behave in unexpected ways and could significantly expand scientists' understanding of the quantum ...