Underpinning much of modern technology, from smartphones to scanning tunneling microscopes to particle colliders, is Fermi's ...

Physicists have built a real-number version of quantum mechanics that makes all the same predictions as the standard theory, resolving a question that's simmered since the field began.

Besides expanding our understanding of foundational physics, the team's breakthrough has significant potential applications in fields such as quantum information and quantum computing. Discover the ...

Physicists have built a real-number version of quantum mechanics that makes all the same predictions as the standard theory, ...

Researchers have created quantum control techniques that can make a system appear to run backward in time. By precisely managing quantum measurements, they can reshape the system's arrow of time and ...

What if time doesn't actually exist until something changes? Scientists at the University of Birmingham created a tiny "mini ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In the fall of 2022, a Princeton University graduate student named Carolina Figueiredo stumbled onto a massive coincidence. She ...

Time has always seemed like the one thing physics could count on. Matter changes, stars die, particles flicker in and out, ...

"Wave-particle duality is the cornerstone of quantum mechanics," says Xiaofeng Qian, the paper's lead author and an Assistant Professor of Physics at Stevens. "Researchers have been working to ...