Quantum Physics

Experiments Spell Doom for Decades-Old Explanation of Quantum Weirdness

Quanta Magazine: How does objective reality emerge from the palette of possibilities supplied by quantum mechanics? That question — the deepest and most vexed issue posed by the theory —…

Artificial intelligence simplifies calculations of electronic properties

Physics World: Using artificial intelligence, an international team of physicists has shown that the thousands of equations needed to model a complex system of interacting electrons can be reduced to…

Quantum material goes ‘loopy’ in magnetic field

Materials Today: A series of buzzing, bee-like ‘loop-currents’ could explain a recently discovered, never-before-seen phenomenon in a type of quantum material. The findings by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder) may one day help engineers to develop new…

Trio who proved quantum mechanics is really weird—and useful—honored

Science: In a citation many physicists expected for decades, this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics honors three researchers who probed a weird quantum mechanical phenomenon called entanglement, paving the…