Researchers Capture Quantum Interference in One of Nature’s Rarest Atoms

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

Quantum Reality Gets Stranger: Physicists Put a Lump of Metal in Two Places at Once

Researchers have shown that surprisingly large metal particles can behave according to quantum mechanics, existing in ...
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Physicists simulate quantum effect in water, uncover novel wave patterns

Researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, working with colleagues in Norway and Chile, recreated the Aharonov–Bohm effect using water waves in a vortex tank, finding unexpected ...
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Ultracold Quantum Collisions Have Been Achieved in Space for the First Time

Even for scientists who have dedicated their lives to understanding gravity, the force’s relentless downward pull is sometimes a drag. Consider, for instance, the researchers who study Bose-Einstein ...
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Physicists push thousands of atoms to a 'Schrödinger's cat' state — bringing the quantum world closer to reality than ever before

Physicists have put thousands of atoms into a "Schrödinger's cat" state — smashing the record for the most macroscopic object to be observed in a quantum state. In a new study, researchers observed ...
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Metal clumps in a quantum state: Physicists place thousands of sodium atoms in a 'Schrödinger's cat state'

Can a small lump of metal be in a quantum state that extends over distant locations? A research team at the University of Vienna answers this question with a resounding yes. In the journal Nature, ...