Can a photon be caught behaving like a wave and a particle in the same run of an experiment? For almost a century, that ...
MIT physicists have performed an idealized version of one of the most famous experiments in quantum physics. Their findings demonstrate, with atomic-level precision, the dual yet evasive nature of ...
Light has always been the stage on which quantum mechanics performs its strangest tricks, and the double-slit experiment is ...
Schematic of the MIT experiment: Two single atoms floating in a vacuum chamber are illuminated by a laser beam and act as the two slits. The interference of the scattered light is recorded with a ...