At the smallest scales of nature, the rules of the world shift in ways that can feel unsettling and beautiful at the same ...
Researchers have demonstrated that a nanoparticle of 7,000 sodium atoms can act as a wave, creating a record-setting ...
A sensitive matter-wave interferometer measuring moiré fringes offers force sensitivity comparable to quantum interference ...
A new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances; DOI 10.29026/oea.2026.250149, discusses a quarter-wave geometric-phase route ...
Tests in a gate-defined loop on graphene tracked a fractional charge circling back with a steady interference beat, as ...
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The team have pushed the boundaries of quantum mechanics beyond what some thought possible. Now they want to go even further ...
For more than a century, scientists have known that waves can behave in ways that seem to defy common sense, from freak walls ...
A record-breaking experiment shows that a cluster of thousands of atoms can act like a wave as well as a particle ...
Researchers from the University of Vienna have reported quantum interference in metallic nanoparticles. These little spheres were made of between 5,000 and 10,000 sodium atoms and measured about 8 ...
A new optical device allows researchers to generate and switch between two stable, donut-shaped light patterns called ...