The year was 1900 and Max Planck was a young physicist working on the problem of blackbody radiation . This was an intense ...

This time, the creative team delves into quantum physics and the new ways it offers to understand our existence. The play ‘Quanta’ is written by Joanna Bednarczyk, a frequent collaborator who also ...

Either model involves overall exponential expansion during inflation, but embryonic inflation theory also incorporates quantum-physical effects such as: production of energy in quanta with random ...

A central tenet of quantum physics is that energy comes in indivisible packets called quanta. Quanta behave very differently to macroscopic matter: particles can behave like waves, and waves ...

A decade after the discovery of the “amplituhedron,” physicists have excavated more of the timeless geometry underlying the standard picture of how particles move. A 1930s-era breakthrough is helping ...

Quantum physics underlies technologies from the laser to the smartphone. The International Year of Quantum marks a century of scientific developments.

Reaching the quantum ground state in such an experiment ... that their oscillator contained a maximum of 0.07 phonons (the quanta of vibrational energy in a solid), which means that the ...

Yet, quantum mechanics is far from complete. Despite its success in explaining a wide range of phenomena, questions remain. The nature of dark matter, the integration of gravity into quantum theory, ...

Philip Ball looks at how a little-known paper by Niels Bohr demonstrates the turmoil in physics on the brink of quantum ...

These were the laws of quantum mechanics ... but perhaps could exist with only specific amounts, or "quanta," of energy. Planck didn't really believe this was true about light, in fact he later ...

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. Observations ...