Trapping ultracold atoms with laser light let researchers magnify and then image the wave functions of atoms that were ...

The precise imaging of many-body systems, which are comprised of many interacting particles, can help to validate theoretical ...

The Irish mathematician and physicist William Rowan Hamilton, who was born 220 years ago last month, is famous for carving some mathematical graffiti into Dublin's Broome Bridge in 1843.

A strange kind of geometry governs how particles move inside matter. Now, for the first time, physicists have uncovered its ...

A survey of Scientific American’s century of quantum coverage helps explain the enduring popularity of strange physics ...

A quiet revolution is taking shape in the world of physics, and it doesn’t rely on exotic particles or massive particle colliders. Instead, it begins with something much more familiar—sound.

Down at the level of atoms and electrons, quantum physics describes the behavior of the very smallest objects. Solar panels, LED lights, your mobile phone and MRI scanners in hospitals: all of these ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Andréa Morris reports on emergent intelligence in diverse systems. “This retroactive idea. It has to be that,” says Nobel ...