The 2025 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to a trio of scientists – a Briton, a Frenchman and an American – for their ...

Students and faculty of UC Santa Barbara’s physics department gathered in Corwin Pavilion for the department’s annual Nobel Prize-focused colloquium on Oct. 14. This year’s event was particularly spec ...

The measurement problem in quantum mechanics looks at how an experimental outcome changes, simply by observing it.

The achievement paves the way for understanding the transition between a particle's classical and quantum behavior. (Nanowerk News) Researchers Mitsuyoshi Kamba, Naoki Hara, and Kiyotaka Aikawa of the ...

A jarring divide cleaves modern physics. On one side lies quantum theory, which portrays subatomic particles as probabilistic waves. On the other lies general relativity, Einstein’s theory that space ...

Welcome back for our second guided walk into the quantum mechanical woods! Last week, we saw how particles move like waves and hit like particles and how a single particle takes multiple paths. While ...

Quantum mechanics is one of the most successful theories in science — and makes much of modern life possible. Technologies ranging from computer chips to medical-imaging machines rely on the ...

One hundred years ago on a quiet, rocky island, German physicist Werner Heisenberg helped set in motion a series of scientific developments that would touch nearly all of physics. There, Heisenberg ...

People have naturally taken his quip as proof that he was dogmatically opposed to quantum mechanics, which views randomness as ... no rule will tell you when or why. When a particle of light strikes a ...

"We were surprised how sensitive the levitated nanoscale particle was to the fluctuations of its environment. This levitated small particle isolated in a vacuum environment will be an ideal system to ...

A single nanoparticle made of glass (a white point near the center of the photo) is confined in an optical potential created with a focused laser beam. By detecting the light scattered by the ...