Quantum mechanics makes nature digital. It is this digital character ... ending the atom's life in a burst of radiation. Radiation is exciting stuff, but not the stuff of which life is made.

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

In a study published Jan. 9 in the journal Nature Physics, researchers successfully cooled a qubit to just 22 millikelvin ...

Planck found that the energy radiated from a heated body is exactly proportional to the wavelength of its radiation. So, a black body would not radiate all frequencies equally. As temperature goes ...

absorption and emission of radiation; coherence functions; coherent states; importance of quantum fluctuations and quantum nature of light; laser amplifiers and amplifier nonlinearity; ...

Quantum mechanics made it possible to successfully explain the discrete nature of the optical spectra ... singularity of the spectrum of blackbody radiation at high frequencies, which Planck ...

American physicist and Nobel Laureate, Richard Feynman, gave a lecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) ...

But what is Hawking radiation, anyway? In quantum mechanics ... observable consequences for primordial black holes and the nature of dark matter, which we will now discuss. As of now, we know ...

Two complementary articles, published in the journals PRX Quantum and the Journal of Instrumentation, outline which sources of interfering ionizing radiation are most problematic for ...

At the turn of the century, scientists thought that all the basic rules like this should apply to everything in nature -- but then ... These were the laws of quantum mechanics, and they got ...