A new quantum theory bridges two rival models of how impurities behave inside many-particle systems, resolving a problem that has challenged physicists for decades. The findings could reshape ...

Quantum mechanics has journeyed from a strange and controversial idea to the foundation of some of humanity’s most advanced ...

A team led by a physicist from City University of Hong Kong (CityU) recently developed a new quantum theory that explains the "light-induced phase" of matter and predicts its novel functionalities.

One of the most basic assumptions of fundamental physics is that the different properties of mass—weight, inertia and gravitation—always remain the same in relation to each other. Without this ...

For much of the early 20th century, quantum mechanics was one of the most puzzling ideas in science. The theory challenged conventional thinking and ...

Quantum physics is the most successful scientific theory ever devised. It powers semiconductors, lasers, and MRI machines. Yet a bold new argument from Oxford physicist Tim Palmer says quantum physics ...

Algebraic structures lie at the heart of modern quantum theory, providing the language for observables, symmetries and state spaces. Operator algebras, notably C*-algebras and von Neumann algebras, ...

Scientists developed a theory linking mobile and static behaviors of a particle in a Fermi sea, explaining quasiparticles and quantum states. (Nanowerk News) A new unified theory connects two ...

Sometime in the 1940s, US physicist David Bohm decided that the only way to understand quantum mechanics was to write a book about it. He wanted it to offer the reader something they could understand ...

I keep coming back to a strange idea: what if everything we know about quantum physics is already encoded inside a single atom? Not in a mystical sense, but in the very real way that one tiny system ...