quantum physics

Last month, physicists at Toronto-based startup Xanadu published a curious experiment in Nature in which they…

Remember we’re dealing with the photon’s wave function here. Since the bounce doesn’t constitute a measurement, the…

The meaning of time is lost in the measurement. Besides, at some point precision measurements run into the…

Physicists have found that an elementary particle called the W boson appears to be 0.1 percent too heavy—a tiny…

Almost anytime physicists announce that they’ve discovered a new particle, whether it’s the Higgs boson or the…

Quantum Latin squares were quickly adopted by a community of theoretical physicists and mathematicians interested…

Thomas Gehrmann remembers the deluge of mathematical expressions that came cascading down his computer screen one…

The universe started out quite smooth overall, the thinking goes, but quantum wiggles imprinted space with tiny…