Quantum mechanics is a pillar of modern science and technology, and has benefited the human society for a century. The wave function, also known as the quantum state, is the description of a quantum ...

These paradoxes aren’t philosophical word games — they emerge directly from equations physicists rely on every day.

The first direct visualization of quantum dots in bilayer graphene shows the shape of the quantum wave function of the trapped electrons. (Image credit: Zhehao Ge, Frederic Joucken, and Jairo Velasco ...

Collision course Artist’s impression of gravitational waves from two black holes. (Courtesy: iStock/Auris) By adapting mathematical techniques used in particle physics, researchers in Germany have ...