For the first time, a team of physicists in Austria has carried out an experiment that appears to verify the principle of ...

Over a decade ago, when I was first starting to pretend I could write about quantum mechanics, I covered a truly bizarre ...

Physicists at the UK’s Central Laser Facility have recorded the first observation of quantum radiation reaction, detecting ...

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For the first time, a quantum radiation reaction in strong electromagnetic fields has been demonstrated experimentally by ...

In the everyday world that humans experience, objects behave in a predictable way, explained by classical physics. One of the important aspects of classical physics is that nothing, not even ...

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A groundbreaking experiment demonstrates yet again that light exists both as a wave and a particle in the quantum world—but we can’t see both at the same time. Reading time 3 minutes Albert Einstein ...

Schematic of the MIT experiment: Two single atoms floating in a vacuum chamber are illuminated by a laser beam and act as the two slits. The interference of the scattered light is recorded with a ...