In many interpretations of quantum mechanics, particles do not have specific positions in the wavefunction, and it is difficult to predict where and when they will appear in an experiment.

Quantum tunnelling — when a particle skips through a barrier that classical physics would forbid — happens faster when objects have less energy, find physicists who worked out a way to probe photons ...

Quantum immortality is a controversial and fascinating concept that emerges from the interpretations of quantum mechanics, ...

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Part of our International Year of Quantum Science and Technology coverage More than 300 top quantum physicists gathered ...

The photoelectric effect, first explained in 1905, transformed our understanding of how light interacts with matter. When ...

Just over 200 years after French engineer and physicist Sadi Carnot formulated the second law of thermodynamics, an international team of researchers has unveiled an analogous law for the quantum ...

Taramandal plans to launch its satellite equipped with this technology in collaboration with a private agency by the end of ...

Climate change left its signature on the atmosphere early in the industrial revolution, reveals a thought experiment ...

Imaginary time is a wonky concept for our time-bound brains, but in quantum theory and mathematics, it’s a useful tool for ...

The UK government’s £500m pledge to quantum technology is part of a broader industrial strategy with energy, sustainability ...

Scientists with NIST and the University of Colorado Boulder developed CURBy, a system that can verify the randomness of strings of numbers, which will add more protection to encrypted data in the ...