Quantum mechanics looks at how things work at the atomic and subatomic levels, where particles behave in ways that seem ...

Helgoland, birthplace of quantum theory, where Werner Heisenberg's breakthrough on matrix mechanics revolutionised physics in ...

Last year, scientists at TU Wien studied the formation of quantum entanglement on attosecond timescales, providing the first ...

Ever support a policy but feel uneasy about it? Here's my take on how psychology—and Schrödinger’s cat—can help you make sense of today’s political contradictions.

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 ...

The chip was fabricated by UNSW's Dr Danielle Holmes, while the atom of antimony was inserted in the chip by colleagues at the University of Melbourne. "By hosting the atomic 'Schrödinger cat' inside ...

A cat sits inside a computer shell. A new study has demonstrated a real-world Schrödinger's cat that could help bring practical quantum computers a step closer. fishg/iStock / Getty Images Plus ...

One of the most famous quantum thought experiments is that of the "Schrödinger's cat"—a cat whose life or death depends on the decay of a radioactive atom.

Matthew Chow, center, and Bethany Little discuss with Yuan-Yu Jau, off camera, the first practical way to detect atom loss for neutral atom quantum computing at Sandia National Laboratories ...

You might also have heard of superposition being explained using Schrödinger’s famous cat paradox. This was a thought experiment proposed by the physicist Erwin Schrödinger, in which a cat is ...

According to quantum mechanics, until the box is opened and observed, the radioactive atom exists simultaneously in both a decayed and undecayed state. Consequently, the cat, too, is both alive ...

A new imaging technique, which captured frozen lithium atoms transforming into quantum waves, could be used to probe some of the most poorly understood aspects of the quantum world.