A century ago, Erwin Schrödinger came up with an equation that says how the quantum world behaves. Now scientists are asking ...
Even given a set of possible quantum states for our cosmos, it's impossible for us to determine which one of them is correct ...
Long before quantum mechanics existed, a scientist developed a powerful way of describing motion by drawing an analogy between particles and light.
Exact solutions of the Schrödinger equation have long provided fundamental insights into quantum mechanics by furnishing explicit analytical expressions for wave functions and energy spectra. These ...
An old puzzle in particle physics has been solved: How can quantum field theories be best formulated on a lattice to ...
What exactly is … everything? What is space-time? At one extreme, you’ve got the weird rules of quantum physics that deal with subatomic particles. At the other extreme, you’ve got the vast expanses ...
Quantum theory has long treated time as a silent backdrop, a parameter that never jitters even as particles flicker in and ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In the fall of 2022, a Princeton University graduate student named Carolina Figueiredo stumbled onto a massive coincidence. She ...