In the quirky quantum world, particles can be affected by forces that they never directly encounter. A classic example is the Aharonov–Bohm (AB) effect, where electrons are affected by a magnetic ...
A speck of metal containing thousands of atoms has no business behaving like a ghost. Yet in a vacuum chamber at the ...
New theoretical work suggests that the pattern of light emitted by atoms could be used to detect gravitational waves at ...
First experimental observation of matter-wave diffraction in a short-lived electron-positron atom using a graphene-based diffraction grating. (Nanowerk News) One of the discoveries that fundamentally ...
One of the defining breakthroughs that set quantum physics apart from classical physics was the realization that matter behaves very differently at ...
Symmetry is one of the most fundamental principles in nature. It describes the rules that make an object look unchanged after ...
What does the passage of time look like for a truly quantum object? The world’s best clocks may soon be able to answer this question, testing how time can stretch and shift in the quantum realm and ...
Lines of momentarily flat water extend outward and rotate, in the opposite direction to the flow of the vortex. The left video shows the pattern from the experiment, while the right video shows the ...
A new study reveals how a spinning vortex causes system-wide, counter-rotating wave patterns, mimicking effects that occur, but cannot be seen, in the quantum realm. (Nanowerk News) In the quirky, ...