Physicists at MIT recreated the double-slit experiment using individual photons and atoms held in laser light, uncovering the ...

The concept of light has fascinated scientists for centuries. A recent MIT experiment has reignited the debate about its dual nature. The MIT team revisited a classic experiment with ...

MIT researchers used ultracold atoms to isolate the quantum trade-off between wave interference and particle path detection.

The experiment showed that Bohr was definitely correct when he argued for complementarity, and that Einstein had got it wrong. The more atom-rustling that was measured, the weaker the diffraction ...

"Whether light is a particle or a wave is a very old question," Riccardo Sapienza, a physicist at Imperial College London, told Live Science. As a species, we seem driven to understand the ...

If we test light to see if it is a wave, we prove with 100% certainty that it is a wave, and due to the uncertainty principle, we can know 0% about the particle aspect of light.

This article is more than 4 years old. Light is well known to exhibit both wave-like and particle-like properties, as imaged here in this ... More 2015 photograph. ... Fabrizio Carbone/EPFL (2015) ...

Scientists have long known that light can behave as both a particle and a wave—Einstein first predicted it in 1909. But no experiment has been able to show light in both states simultaneously.

However, in 2012, Live Science reported that scientists at Bristol University, UK, carried out an experiment, which proved that light was simultaneously both particle and wave at the same time.

Scientists at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne managed to take a snapshot of light in all its elusive wave-particle duality, a form first proposed by Einstein in 1905.