Quantum calculations amount to sophisticated estimates. But in 1931, Hans Bethe intuited precisely how a chain of particles ...
Antimatter is a fascinating kind of matter made up of antiparticles, which have a mass equivalent to that of their normal ...
Quantum researchers have long believed that strong spin interactions in qubits required covalent bonds, making large-scale ...
the quantum-mechanical hydrogen atom is stable. If the hydrogen atom obeyed the laws of classical mechanics, by contrast, the electron would spiral into the proton in a tiny fraction of a ...
Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have synthesized a Bi5⁻ ring, a molecule with five bismuth atoms, ...
Did these researchers truly just crack our fundamental concepts of (quantum) physics wide open ... in the photonic energy getting absorbed by an atom, boosting the energy state of its electron ...
Entropy always increases, but in quantum systems, traditional entropy measures seem constant. TU Wien researchers resolved this paradox by considering Shannon entropy, which accounts for the ...
The famous second law of thermodynamics says that the world gets more and more disordered when random chance is at play. Or, to put it more precisely: that entropy must increase in every closed system ...
However, using an atom-thick layer ... According to the laws of quantum mechanics, this diffraction is only possible because the energy exchange between graphene and the hydrogen/helium atoms ...
Errors in quantum computers are an obstacle for their widespread use. But a team of scientists say that, by using an antimony atom and the Schrödinger's Cat thought experiment, they could have ...