There has long been a mystery when calculating how an incoming light wave scatters off an object and becomes a modified, ...

And the quantum world is filled with materials composed of the latter. But until now, the quantum geometry of wave functions could only be inferred theoretically, or sometimes not at all.

Topological quantum systems are physical systems exhibiting properties that depend on the overall connectivity of their ...

Because of the magic of quantum superposition, which describes how all the possible quantum states exist synchronously in a particle's quantum wave-function, a proton or antiproton can have a spin ...

The theory of quantum mechanics has transformed daily life since being proposed a century ago, yet how it works remains a mystery – and physicists are deeply divided about what is actually going on, a ...

Many physicists prefer the idea that quantum waves — or more precisely, their mathematical representations, wave functions — don’t correspond to actual physical entities; the wave function simply ...

To mark the 100th year of quantum mechanics, many of the world's leading physicists gathered last month on the German island of Heligoland, where Heisenberg wrote his famous equation.

If one were to think of this pulse as discrete quanta of photon particles, it’d seem to break causality, but as a wave function within quantum physics this is perfectly acceptable.

But really there is a quantum wave function that describes all the possibilities at once. Keep that in mind, and now let's introduce the second key ingredient: horizon complementarity. The idea of ...

Complex numbers have the interpretation of vectors that rotate in the complex plane. This interpretation can be extended to represent complex numbers as two dimensional vectors using standard vector ...

Although the antimatter qubit won't find use in quantum computing, it will be used to test the differences between matter and antimatter.