"Dark photon" theory says light's interference patterns may emerge from quantum particles, not waves, upending centuries of ...

For nearly a century, some of the strangest questions in physics have revolved around how quantum objects move, interact and ...

In the past year, two separate experiments in two different materials captured the same confounding scenario: the coexistence ...

Mean-field theory and semiclassical methods constitute vital frameworks in contemporary quantum mechanics. By replacing the intricate web of particle interactions with an average or “mean” field, mean ...

The force we experience most intimately remains the most mysterious. Physicists understand how vast migrations of particles called photons light up our homes, and how swarms of “gluon” particles hold ...

Does quantum mechanics really reflect nature in its truest form, or is it just our imprecise way of describing the weird properties of the very small? A famous test that can help answer this question ...

Sorta sparked by this comment someone made to me but it's similar to what other people have told me before: I was listening to a lecture on quantum electrodynamics and it helped me conceptualize the ...