In materials science, if you can understand the "texture" of a material—how its internal patterns form and shift—you can ...

Scientists have made the first experimental observation of matter wave diffraction in a short-lived electron-positron atom.

The quantum rules shaping molecular collisions are now coming into focus, offering fresh insights for chemistry and materials science. When molecules collide with surfaces, a complex exchange of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers at Rice University and their collaborators have achieved a groundbreaking demonstration of strong interference between ...

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

(Nanowerk News) Scientists have long known that electrons are indivisible fundamental particles. Yet surprising new research shows that a weird feature of quantum mechanics can be used to produce ...

Thomas Young, born 250 years ago this week, was a polymath who made seminal contributions in fields from physics to Egyptology. But perhaps his most enduring legacy is proving Isaac Newton wrong about ...

In the fractional quantum Hall effect, electrons in a strong magnetic field organize into collective states. Such states behave as quasiparticles, known as anyons, that carry a fraction of the ...

Quantum interference, in particular, plays a key role. It occurs when different pathways that a molecule can take overlap, resulting in specific patterns of interaction: some pathways amplify each ...

Scientists have long known that electrons are indivisible fundamental particles. Yet surprising new research shows that a weird feature of quantum mechanics can be used to produce objects that behave ...