Once a baffling theory, quantum mechanics has evolved into a driving force behind modern technology and frontier research.

Stephen Hawking's theory of black hole evaporation clashes with the laws of quantum mechanics. A new paper finds a way around ...

Researchers have shown that surprisingly large metal particles can behave according to quantum mechanics, existing in ...

Some quantum cryptographers want to find ways to keep messages secret even if the rules of quantum mechanics don’t hold. The ...

For the first time, scientists have observed quantum entanglement in the momentum of massive particles. The result, decades in the making, could help physicists probe the relationship between quantum ...

For the first time, physicists have entangled two atoms while they were in motion and used the result to run one of quantum ...

A team of physicists has designed quantum algorithms that can model one of the most elusive behaviors in nature: a photon flipping its polarization inside an extreme electromagnetic field. The work, ...

Quantum key distribution (QKD) has been positioned as a physics-based method of securing encryption keys that cannot be ...

Waterloo scientists have developed a new way to understand how the universe began, and it could change what we know about the Big Bang and the earliest moments of cosmic history. Their work suggests ...

For the first time, scientists have directly imaged the quantum process underlying superconductivity, a phenomenon in which ...