A map of quantum physics, sound of a wave-function collapse, famous physicists as dogs In the short term, the researchers plan to apply a similar type of analysis to other collapse theories, such as ...

One example is a wave in shallow water. Though governed by classical hydrodynamics, shallow water waves can have waveforms ...

Two different concepts of distinguishability are often mixed up in attempts to derive in quantum mechanics the (anti)symmetry of the wave function from indistinguishability of identical particles.

By treating Earth as a topological insulator—a state of quantum matter—physicists found a powerful explanation for the twisting movements of the planet’s air and seas ...

It underpins the whole theory of quantum mechanics, but does it exist? For nearly a century physicists have argued about whether the wave function is a real part of the world or just a ...

An experiment claims to have invalidated a decades-old criticism against pilot-wave theory, an alternative formulation of quantum mechanics that avoids the most baffling features of the subatomic ...

Researchers created an interference pattern for molecules made of 100 atoms -- the largest objects ever shown to reveal the weird quantum effect of particle-wave duality.

The wave function is a representation of all the possible quantum states of a particle. Until the particle is measured, causing the wave function to "collapse," that matter really does exist with ...

Physics Ghosts in the atom: Unmasking the quantum phantom The wave function of quantum theory has always been accepted as an abstract mathematical device – but could this cipher actually be real?