Today, physicists are still asking themselves whether quantum mechanics needs hypercomplex numbers. FAU researchers Ece Ipek ...

Vanishing atoms can ruin quantum calculations. Scientists have a new plan to locate leaks. Quantum computers face a major ...

What an incredible judicial duel. The erstwhile head of the federal Office of Special Counsel, Hampton Dellinger, ...

Erwin Schrödinger was the only son of well-educated parents. His father owned an oil cloth factory and was an amateur painter and botanist. Erwin was taught at home, by tutors and parents ...

Quantum physics underlies technologies from the laser to the smartphone. The International Year of Quantum marks a century of scientific developments.

Erwin Schrödinger, Paul Dirac and others. Pauli’s principle can be considered the apex of the old quantum theory and, unusually, survived to be incorporated into the new one. Its centenary is ...

Amazon has become the third tech giant in as many months to announce a breakthrough in quantum computing - a technology that ...

Physicists at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) are the first to succeed in creating and manipulating quantum superpositions of a single, large nuclear spin. The superposition involves spin ...

Sprinting after Microsoft and co, Amazon claims it too has a QC chip that's good at all-important error correction ...

Devised in 1935 by the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger, this thought experiment was designed to shine a spotlight on the difficulty with interpreting quantum theory. Quantum theory is very ...

The Physical Aspects of the Living Cell by physicist Erwin Schrödinger. Schrödinger was fascinated with the idea of applying physics to the study of biology and in his book proposed ...