It turns out that imaginary numbers aren’t really needed for quantum mechanics.

Irrational numbers have underpinned quantum mechanics for a century. Removing them could eliminate its strangest features and ...

Even 'empty' space is seething with quantum fluctuations. (Quardia/iStock/Getty Images Plus) Empty space is never actually ...

A team led by a physicist from City University of Hong Kong (CityU) recently developed a new quantum theory that explains the "light-induced phase" of matter and predicts its novel functionalities.

Remember building model molecules with balls and sticks in chemistry class? You have J. Robert Oppenheimer to thank for that, ...

Several years ago one of us, Toni, asked another of us, Marco, to come to his office at the Institute of Photonic Sciences, a large research center in Castelldefels near Barcelona. “There is a problem ...

With the help of a new experiment, researchers have succeeded in confirming a ten-year-old theoretical study, which connects one of the most fundamental aspects of quantum mechanics -- the ...

When different materials transition from one phase to another, such as water coming to a boil or a magnet losing its ability ...

This idea may help address the black hole information paradox, especially the problem that black holes seem to violate a key ...

Our most successful theory of nature is bewilderingly remote from reality. But fixing that may require a weirder theory still PHYSICS, its practitioners will proudly tell you, is the most fundamental ...

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