Philip Ball looks at how a little-known paper by Niels Bohr demonstrates the turmoil in physics on the brink of quantum ...

A new theoretical approach is proposed to explain the nature of the well-known narrow and intense optical J-band of ...

Discovery of New Class of Particles Could Take Quantum Mechanics One Step Further Jan ... and control over atoms -- think two-photon atomic clocks, cold-atom interferometer sensors and quantum ...

Quantum mechanics 100 years on: an unfinished revolution By supposing that electrons move in elliptical orbits around an atomic nucleus ... of molecular bonds, the structure of metals, and ...

In Bohr’s 1913 papers he envisaged atoms along the lines established by his mentor Ernest Rutherford: dense nuclei orbited by ...

A type of mathematical function used in quantum mechanics that explicitly includes the correlation between particles, improving the accuracy of calculations. Fine structure: The small splitting of ...

A team of physicists and engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder has discovered a new way to measure the orientation ...

Without these invisible contacts, matter could not maintain its structure, and chemical reactions, vibrations, or even heat would not exist. Quantum mechanics is a fundamental theory that describes ...

Scientific breakthroughs often stem from the persistent pursuit of understanding complex phenomena. From the nanoscale ...

Honda Research Institute USA develops nanoribbon materials for quantum communication, enhancing security in sensitive ...

Scientists have harnessed many-body physics to transform quantum dots into scalable, stable quantum nodes. By entangling ...