Physicists have replicated the famous Schrödinger's cat experiment at hotter temperatures than ever before. The breakthrough is a small but significant step toward quantum computers that can work ...

Quantum states can only be prepared and observed under highly controlled conditions. A research team from Innsbruck, Austria, has now succeeded in creating so-called hot Schrödinger cat states in ...

In 1935, Austrian-born physicist Erwin Schrödinger described a thought experiment that magnified a glaring problem at the heart of quantum mechanics. To this day, the problem remains, summed up ...

The story of Schrödinger's Tree is a real-world quantum physics experiment and a lesson about not coming to conclusions when faced with the ambiguous nature of time.

Schrödinger's cat is a seemingly paradoxical thought experiment devised by Erwin Schrödinger that attempts to illustrate the incompleteness of an early interpretation of quantum mechanics when ...

Troubled times After an unhappy three years in Oxford starting in 1933, Erwin Schrödinger returned to Austria and is shown here in 1937 with a car belonging to German physicist Max von Laue. (Courtesy ...

A project to improve data visualization ended up overturning a century-old model of color space that underpins industry standards for color everywhere from digital displays to paint. The opportunity ...

This is the premise of Erwin Schrödinger’s 1935 thought experiment to describe quantum states, and now, researchers have managed to create a fat (which is to say, massive) Schrödinger cat ...

In a quantum parable dreamt up in the 1930s by physicist Erwin Schrödinger, a cat is trapped in a box and, due to quantum effects, winds up alive and dead at the same time (SN: 5/26/16).

The story of Schrödinger's Tree is a real-world quantum physics experiment and a lesson about not coming to conclusions when faced with the ambiguous nature of time.

Schrödinger cat states are a fascinating phenomenon in quantum physics in which a quantum object exists simultaneously in two different states. In Erwin Schrödinger's thought experiment, it is a ...