Researchers from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw and the University of British Columbia have described how ...

According to scientific legend, quantum mechanics was born on the island of Helgoland in 1925. A hundred years later, ...

Sidney Perkowitz uncovers the pioneering work of the German physicist and philosopher Grete Hermann, who sparred with the likes of Werner Heisenberg and John von Neumann – but whose contributions to ...

Left: The first lines of the letter sent by Werner Heisenberg to Wolfgang Pauli on 9 July 1925, explaining his efforts to interpret quantum physics ...

Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have achieved exciting progress in quantum metrology, a field ...

In a dark corner of a guest house in Helgoland, a diary by Werner Heisenberg has been discovered, describing how he developed ...

Later, physicists Max Born and Pascual Jordan crystallized the mathematics in a paper submitted in September and in another, in collaboration with Heisenberg, in November. And physicist Erwin ...

Part of our International Year of Quantum Science and Technology coverage More than 300 top quantum physicists gathered ...

Alternative deterministic interpretation generally predicts the same results as standard theories – but maybe not this time ...

Werner Heisenberg, one of the greatest physicists of the 20th century, played a central role in Germany’s atomic bomb program during WWII. But a scientific mistake he made effectively derailed ...

Heisenberg, as Moar acknowledges, sought to find a story that absolved the Germans of moral failure while also denying that they got the physics wrong. At first he refused to believe the announcement ...