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An old puzzle in particle physics has been solved: How can quantum field theories be best formulated on a lattice to ...

This puzzle is known as the problem of time, and it remains one of the most persistent obstacles to a unified theory of ...

There are lots of quantum computing start-ups, but IBM, America's first tech company, has led the pack since the 1970s, and ...

On 9 July 1925, Heisenberg sent a paper titled ‘Quantum-theoretical re-interpretation of kinematic and mechanical relations’ to Max Born, whom he was assisting at that time, and Born sent the paper to ...

Long before quantum mechanics existed, a scientist developed a powerful way of describing motion by drawing an analogy between particles and light.

For more than a century, modern physics has rested on two towering frameworks that do not quite agree with each other.

Even given a set of possible quantum states for our cosmos, it's impossible for us to determine which one of them is correct ...

A hundred years ago this week, at the height of the quantum revolution, Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger submitted a ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In the fall of 2022, a Princeton University graduate student named Carolina Figueiredo stumbled onto a massive coincidence. She ...