Quantum physics underlies technologies from the laser to the smartphone. The International Year of Quantum marks a century of scientific developments.

Quantum systems don’t just transition between phases—they do so in ways that defy classical intuition. A new experiment has ...

Researchers at Empa have taken a significant step toward practical quantum computing by creating and manipulating Heisenberg ...

Today, physicists are still asking themselves whether quantum mechanics needs hypercomplex numbers. FAU researchers Ece Ipek ...

Empa researchers from the nanotech@surfaces laboratory have experimentally recreated another fundamental theoretical model ...

It also marks the centenary of Werner Heisenberg’s seminal work in modern physics. In recent years there have been dramatic developments in quantum communications, cryptography and computing ...

Physics has a problem – their key models of quantum theory and the theory of relativity do not fit together. Now, the German Research Foundation is ...

Empa researchers from the nanotech@surfaces laboratory have experimentally recreated two fundamental quantum physics models originally inspired b ...