One hundred years ago on a quiet, rocky island, German physicist Werner Heisenberg helped set in motion a series of scientific developments that would touch nearly all of physics. There, Heisenberg ...

Quantum computing just plain sounds cool. We've all read about the massive investment in making it a reality, and its promise of breakthroughs in many industries. But all that press is usually short ...

Quantum theory is often sold as a story about tiny particles, but its real disruption lands squarely on our everyday sense of what is real. At the smallest scales, the equations that power lasers, ...

Everyone has their favourite example of a trick that reliably gets a certain job done, even if they don’t really understand why. Back in the day, it might have been slapping the top of your television ...

Quantum mechanics education has evolved significantly over the past decades, as instructors and researchers work to bridge the gap between abstract quantum principles and practical applications.

Quantum mechanics is one of the most successful theories in science — and makes much of modern life possible. Technologies ranging from computer chips to medical-imaging machines rely on the ...

As Joe Howlett points out, "the Schrödinger equation remains physicists’ foremost window into the quantum realm. It tells scientists how that strange world works; that is, how quantum objects interact ...

Allison Kealy is affiliated with Quantum Australia as a board member. Allison Kealy is a research collaborator with RMIT University and Phasor Quantum. Quantum technology is no longer confined to the ...

On the centennial of modern quantum mechanics, the Nobel Committee awarded the year’s most prestigious physics prize to an experiment that demonstrated how quantum effects play out on large ...

Does quantum mechanics allow the future to retroactively influence the past or not? Does quantum mechanics allow the future to retroactively influence the past, as in the infamous delayed choice ...