Nature survey shows that disagreement about the meaning of quantum physics remains strong, even 100 years in. And that’s OK.

But researchers still disagree widely on how best to describe the physical reality that lies behind the mathematics, as a ...

In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of modern quantum mechanics, a survey asked physicists for their takes on some hot ...

Carbon dioxide’s powerful heat-trapping effect has been traced to a quirk of its quantum structure. The finding may explain climate change better than any computer model.

Experimental setup and measured optical depth. (Credit: Josiah Sinclair et al., PRX Quantum, 2022) ...

MIT physicists performed an idealized version of the double-slit experiment, stripping it to its quantum essentials. They ...

In some ways, death doesn't exist in quantum mechanics. No wonder Albert Einstein thought it made no sense at all, even if the math added up.

Quantum mechanics suggests that, until we observe the system, the atom exists in a superposition of decayed and not decayed states — and by extension, the cat is both dead and alive.

In quantum mechanics, the closer things are, the stranger things get. And that’s definitely true of a new MIT study that pushed the limits of atom proximity by a factor of ten.

And now we feel like maybe we have to unify quantum mechanics and gravitational forces, but other than that it’s kind of done. That might very well not be correct. That’s a bit too naïve.

Physicist Max Tegmark, now a professor of physics at MIT, popularized the idea in 1997 as a way to think about quantum mechanics, the physics that explains how the tiniest particles, like atoms ...

However, on closer examination, it will be observed that recent developments are primarily derived from a single quantum mechanical view of how nature operates. Such examples include IBM’s 133 ...