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

Researchers at Empa have taken a significant step toward practical quantum computing by creating and manipulating Heisenberg ...

The two scientists worked closely on theoretical investigations into quantum theory and the nature of physics. Bohr was away on a skiing holiday, and Heisenberg was left to mull things over himself.

Today, physicists are still asking themselves whether quantum mechanics needs hypercomplex numbers. FAU researchers Ece Ipek ...

In 1926 Heisenberg joined Bohr at the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen. This turned out to be one of the most productive periods in Heisenberg's life. In 1927 he was puzzling over ...

Empa researchers from the nanotech@surfaces laboratory have experimentally recreated two fundamental quantum physics models originally inspired b ...

Phase transitions, like water freezing into ice, are a familiar part of our world. But in quantum systems, they can behave ...

Physics has a problem – their key models of quantum theory and the theory of relativity do not fit together. Now, the German Research Foundation is ...

The Heisenberg uncertainty principle says that ... Particles governed by quantum physics, such as the electron, don’t really exist in a specific place. Instead, they are more like clouds of ...

Empa researchers from the nanotech@surfaces laboratory have experimentally recreated another fundamental theoretical model ...

In a new publication in Nature Materials, an international team of researchers has developed groundbreaking artificial chains ...

But in quantum systems, they can behave even more dramatically, with quantum properties such as Heisenberg uncertainty playing a central role. ... American quantum computing startup PsiQuantum ...