The famous second law of thermodynamics says that the world gets more and more disordered when random chance is at play. Or, ...

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

However, a new study from researchers at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) challenges this notion. It suggests that the entropy of a closed quantum system also increas ...

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

To begin with, there’s no single quantum theory. There’s quantum mechanics, the basic mathematical framework that underpins it all, which was first developed in the 1920s by Niels Bohr ...

The research was done by Caltech’s Clifford Cheung and Aaron Hillman along with Grant Remmen at New York University. They ...

Quantum field theory marries the ideas of other quantum theories to depict all particles as “excitations” that arise in underlying fields. The British physicist Paul Dirac started the ball ...

A kind of umbilical cord between different quantum states can be found in some materials. Researchers at TU Wien have now ...

The key building block of a basic quantum computer is the so-called qubit. These are analogous to the regular bits in a conventional computer, in that they can represent a value of "0" or a value ...

The protons and neutrons themselves are the basic bound states of quarks in the universe ... Physicists in this field explore the nature of the strong force by studying the theory of Quantum ...

The publication of Werner Heisenberg’s article was arguably the moment that ushered in the modern age of quantum mechanics, thus setting in train an astonishing revolution in our basic ...