Researchers at the University of Basel and the Laboratoire Kastler Brossel have demonstrated how quantum mechanical ...

Quantum state diffusion framework makes it possible to characterize quantum measurement in terms of entropy production ...

Entangled atoms, separated in space, are giving scientists a powerful new way to measure the world with stunning precision.

During the mid- to late-twentieth century, quantum physicists picked apart the unified theory of physics that Einstein’s theory of relativity offered. The physics of the large was governed by gravity, ...

A team from UNIGE shows that it is possible to determine the state of a quantum system from indirect measurements when it is coupled to its environment.

An international team of researchers has systematically measured the β-decay half-lives of 40 nuclei near calcium-54, ...

Nanomechanical systems developed at TU Wien have now reached a level of precision and miniaturization that will allow them to ...

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Uncertainty affects the accuracy with which measurements can be made in quantum physics. To reduce this uncertainty, physicists have learned to "squeeze" certain measurements. Researchers are now ...

We know how to derive most fundamental constants from conditions of the universe, models This is an accurate description of physics as a whole, but wildly untrue in particle physics. There are 25 ...

Recently in my physics lab, students were having trouble with the difference between mass and weight. I had ready answers---it’s a topic I’ve gone over hundreds of times. But after I explained that ...