The Pauli exclusion principle is a cornerstone of the Standard Model of particle physics and is essential for the structure ...

Researchers have demonstrated that a nanoparticle of 7,000 sodium atoms can act as a wave, creating a record-setting ...

A century-old thought experiment on wave–particle duality is brought into the laboratory using a single trapped atom ...

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A microscopic clump of sodium has become the largest object ever to be observed as a wave, improving upon previous records by ...

EPFL physicists have found a way to measure the time involved in quantum events and found it depends on the symmetry of the ...

Physicists have coaxed clusters of thousands of atoms into a delicate quantum limbo, creating a record breaking version of ...

Physicists have found a way to measure how long ultra-fast quantum events actually take—without using a clock at all.

The original paper by Kim et al. on the Delayed Choice Quantum Eraser suggests the concept of retrocausality, which stems ...

To reach this conclusion, the researchers examined the most basic form of entanglement between identical particles using the concept of nonlocality introduced by physicist John Bell. While ...

For many of us, advanced physics can be tough to understand to begin with, which makes it all the more impressive whenever someone earns a Nobel Prize for advancing the field even further. The latest ...

If true, the idea would blow past one of physics’ most sacred limits: that parallel versions of reality can never talk to ...