Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A team of physics educators from Italy, Hungary, Slovenia and Germany is focusing on a new approach to teaching quantum physics in schools. Traditional classroom teaching…
Category: Quantum Physics
Capturing complex atoms in optical tweezers
Part of the experimental set-up with the cylindrical oven and the apparatus for cooling of erbium atoms. The light from the cyan laser is used to trap the particles. Credit:…
Extending classical black hole inequalities into the quantum realm
Scientists are exploring the effects of quantum phenomena on black hole dynamics. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Jeremy Schnittman, cmglee. A recent study in Physical Review Letters explores quantum effects…
Using matter waves, scientists unveil novel collective behaviors in quantum optics
Representation of an array of matter-wave emitters held in an optical lattice tube (atomic excitations in red, emitted matter waves in blue, and effective vacuum coupling in green), along with…
