“Positronium is the simplest atom composed of equal-mass constituents, and until it self-annihilates, it behaves as a neutral ...
Stanford physicist Mark Kasevich has adapted the technology in today's airplane navigation systems to work with atoms so cold that they almost stand still. At temperatures scarcely above absolute zero ...
WAVE MECHANICS THE FIRST FIFTY YEARS A TRIBUTE TO PROFESSOR LOUIS DE BROGLIE NOBEL LAUREATE ON THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE WAVE NATURE OF THE ELECTRON EDITED BY WILLIAM C PRICE ...
Surprising oil drop experiments suggest that the quantum world may not be as strange as advertised. For nearly a century, “reality” has been a murky concept. The laws of quantum physics seem to ...
In October 1927, some of the greatest minds in physics gathered for the Fifth Solvay International Conference to debate the troubling implications of the then-nascent theory of quantum mechanics. A ...