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

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

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

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 ...

It also marks the centenary of Werner Heisenberg’s seminal work in modern physics. In recent years there have been dramatic developments in quantum communications, cryptography and computing ...

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

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 ...

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

Michal Tomza from the Faculty of Physics of ... Phase transitions ... with quantum properties such as Heisenberg uncertainty playing a central role. ... Researchers from Würzburg have ...

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