Erwin Schrödinger provides a new perspective that helps us navigate quantum mechanics. Erwin Schrödinger suggests that “incredibly small groups of atoms, much too small to display exact statistical ...

Devised in 1935 by the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger, this thought experiment was designed to shine a spotlight on the difficulty with interpreting quantum theory. Quantum theory is very ...

In this news release, researchers from the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) report that they have demonstrated for the first time that six charged atoms of beryllium, or ions ...

In keeping with the grand tradition of tubby cats, a newly created quantum “cat” is particularly massive — at least for the quantum realm. Scientists put a jiggling piece of sapphire crystal in what’s ...

Nearly a century ago, the physicist Erwin Schrödinger called attention to a quirk of the quantum world that has fascinated and vexed researchers ever since. When quantum particles such as atoms ...

Schrödinger's Cat. (Credit: Google) The man who tried to explain some of the enigmas behind quantum mechanics has earned a Google Doogle . The man who tried to explain some of the enigmas behind ...

Quantum mechanics often has difficulty breaking through to the general public, which is where the importance of "Schrödinger's Cat" lies. The thought experiment captured the general imagination, with ...

Erwin Schrödinger used the analogy of a cat in a box to illustrate the fragile nature of quantum states, which collapse upon observation. But atoms, like cats, can escape. Researchers at Sandia ...

In 1935, the physicist Erwin Schrödinger put forward the thought experiment with the quantum cat, in which the cat is enclosed in a box together with a radioactive sample, a detector and a lethal ...