These feats reveal that, given the striking success of quantum mechanics, attributes such as 'particle' and 'wave' cannot sustain any higher epistemic meaning. Preparing a photon in a coherent ...

Holding pattern Small clusters of caesium atoms (pink blobs) were held in a vertical optical lattice. A laser then splits each atom into a quantum state in which half of the atom was closer to a ...

Light is well known to exhibit both wave-like and particle-like properties, as imaged here in this 2015 photograph. What's less well appreciated is that matter particles also exhibit those wave-like ...

An international team of researchers recently placed an entire molecule into a state of quantum superposition. This huge breakthrough represents the largest object to ever be observed in such a state ...

Enormous, spontaneous waves in the open ocean were once the tall tales of sailors. Rogue waves - enormous, spontaneous surface waves in the open ocean - were once the tall tales of sailors. They are ...