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

A new version of the famous double-slit experiment showed that it's impossible to measure light as both a wave and a particle ...

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

A groundbreaking experiment demonstrates yet again that light exists both as a wave and a particle in the quantum world—but ...

This quantum balancing act—long debated by Einstein and Bohr—was tested without traditional “spring” components, instead ...

The interference of the scattered light is recorded with a highly sensitive camera depicted as a screen. Incoherent light ...

MIT scientist built an idealized, atomic-scale version of the famous double slit experiment which showed Albert Einstein was ...

MIT physicists have recreated the most iconic experiment in quantum physics — this time with individual atoms acting as the ...

Like the proverbial tree falling in the forest, scientists wonder: does reality exist on its own . . . or just when you observe the world?