For several decades, a central puzzle in quantum physics has remained unsolved: Could electrons behave like a perfect, ...

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Researchers from the Indian Institute of Science’s Department of Physics, together with researchers from Japan's National ...

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A new quantum recipe for black holes could be the first step toward a theory of "quantum gravity", the "holy grail" of physics.

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A new book on quantum physics is pleasingly full of cutting-edge topics. Yet it isn't the accessible work it promised to be ...

John Hopfield, one of this year’s winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics, is a true polymath. His career started with probing the physics of solid states during the field’s heyday in the 1950s ...