Physicists in China have brought one of Einstein’s thought experiments into reality—but not quite with the outcome he hoped ...
Can a photon be caught behaving like a wave and a particle in the same run of an experiment? For almost a century, that ...
Light has always been the stage on which quantum mechanics performs its strangest tricks, and the double-slit experiment is ...
A single atom as a movable slit: Researchers realize Einstein's thought experiment in original form, observing ...
The double-slit experiment is the most famous and probably the most important experiment in quantum physics: individual particles are shot at a wall with two openings, behind which a detector measures ...