World Quantum Day is celebrated every 14 April, with the numbers taken from Planck's constant, 4.14 × 10⁻¹⁵ electron-volts per second. This constant is central to understanding how energy behaves at ...
Several years ago one of us, Toni, asked another of us, Marco, to come to his office at the Institute of Photonic Sciences, a large research center in Castelldefels near Barcelona. “There is a problem ...
A century ago, the strange behavior of atoms and elementary particles led physicists to formulate a new theory of nature. That theory, quantum mechanics, found immediate success, proving its worth ...
Quantum physics is the most successful scientific theory ever devised. It powers semiconductors, lasers, and MRI machines. Yet a bold new argument from Oxford physicist Tim Palmer says quantum physics ...