Quantum mechanics continues to offer profound insights into the fundamental nature of matter and energy, and the use of special functions plays a critical role in obtaining exact analytical solutions ...

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis were recognized for work that made behaviors of the subatomic realm observable at a larger scale. By Katrina Miller and Ali Watkins John Clarke, ...

For more than a century, thermodynamics has described how heat flows and engines run, while quantum mechanics has ruled the ...

Nobel Committee member Göran Johansson explains elements of quantum mechanics during a press conference to announce the winners of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics on October 7 in Stockholm. Christine ...

Recent advancements in quantum computing hardware have ushered in a new era of practical quantum mechanics applications. A novel system that sorts ions for more efficient computation marks a ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Three University of California scientists won the Nobel Prize in Physics for quantum mechanics research that ...

Quantum mechanics is one of the most successful theories in science — and makes much of modern life possible. Technologies ranging from computer chips to medical-imaging machines rely on the ...

On the centennial of modern quantum mechanics, the Nobel Committee awarded the year’s most prestigious physics prize to an experiment that demonstrated how quantum effects play out on large ...