Time crystals: Matter that ticks without a clock and defies physics | Technology News
In 2012, Nobel Prize–winning physicist Frank Wilczek was riding a wave of curiosity. He had spent his life…
Photons pass famous Bell test but without entanglement, shows study
For decades, entanglement has been the hallmark of quantum weirdness, a ghostly connection between particles that Einstein famously…
Twist on Famous Double-Slit Experiment Deals a Blow to Einstein’s Quantum Doubts
Albert Einstein famously disliked quantum theory’s understanding that physical objects, including light, exist as both a particle and…
New state of matter found by US scientists
Researchers at Rutgers University in the US have found a new quantum state where matter can exist. Dubbed…
After 100 Years of Quantum Mechanics, Physicists Still Can’t Agree on Anything
In July 1925—exactly a century ago—famed physicist Werner Heisenberg wrote a letter to his equally famous colleague, Wolfgang…
Einstein Was Wrong? ‘Idealized’ Double-Slit Experiment Ends Nearly 100-Year-Old Debate
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) scientists performing what they described as an “idealized” version of the infamous double-slit…
Quantum mechanics physics theory was born 100 years ago, thanks to Heisenberg’s hay fever
In 1925, a young German physicist fled to the treeless island of Helgoland in the North Sea to…
Wide-field spectroscopic imaging of optical activity
Concept and experimental workflow Figure 1 shows the conceptual scheme and the experimental setup of the polarization-sensitive off-axis…
New framework clears spin-orbit confusion in solids and unifies physics
For over a century, scientists have accepted an uneasy truth. Quantum mechanics and relativity, two of the most…
Radical New Theory Rewrites the Story of the Earliest Universe
Following the Big Bang, our universe expanded at an exponential rate. According to this theory, known as cosmic…