I keep coming back to a strange idea: what if everything we know about quantum physics is already encoded inside a single atom? Not in a mystical sense, but in the very real way that one tiny system ...

A radical new theory begins with a central claim: consciousness is the fundamental field of reality; time, space, and matter ...

Quantum field theory (QFT) provides a comprehensive framework for describing the fundamental interactions of matter and radiation. In the context of atom‐field interactions, QFT elucidates how atoms ...

Quantum theory fails to explain how the reality we experience emerges from the world of particles. A new take on quantum ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Quantum theory has proven to be one of the most fruitful scientific theories in that it has ...

You might say it all started with a spot of hay fever. In June 1925, a young physicist named Werner Heisenberg retreated to the barren island of Helgoland in the North Sea, seeking respite from his ...

An atom typically can’t be assigned a definite position, for example—we can merely calculate the probability of finding it in various places. The vexing question then becomes: How do quantum ...

Researchers at the University of Twente and Utrecht University demonstrated for the first time that quantum states in the ...

Physicists are watching a new class of quantum materials behave in ways that seem to ignore some of the most familiar rules of electricity and magnetism. Instead of electrons marching in neat, ...

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Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a new theoretical framework that could dramatically ...