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Does the universe notice that we're paying attention to a quantum experiment? The answer goes against everything we thought we knew.

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The Irish mathematician and physicist William Rowan Hamilton, who was born 220 years ago last month, is famous for carving some mathematical graffiti into Dublin's Broome Bridge in 1843. But in his ...

A groundbreaking study has challenged centuries of scientific consensus, potentially unravelling our understanding of how light behaves. Research from the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics may ...

Does quantum mechanics really reflect nature in its truest form, or is it just our imprecise way of describing the weird properties of the very small? A famous test that can help answer this question ...

Noncommutative quantum mechanics extends the conventional framework by introducing noncommuting spatial (and sometimes momentum) coordinates, thereby altering the standard uncertainty relations and ...

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