Light has always been the stage on which quantum mechanics performs its strangest tricks, and the double-slit experiment is ...

Scientists in China have performed an experiment first proposed by Albert Einstein almost a century ago when he sought to ...

Quantum mechanics is weird. When you think you have reached the bottom of its weirdness, you always discover a new ...

A single atom as a movable slit: Researchers realize Einstein's thought experiment in original form, observing ...

Physicists in China have brought one of Einstein’s thought experiments into reality—but not quite with the outcome he hoped ...

Can a photon be caught behaving like a wave and a particle in the same run of an experiment? For almost a century, that ...

The classic double-slit experiment of quantum physics involves shining light through two narrow gaps to show that it can behave as a wave – now it seems the slits can be entirely replaced by a single ...

Physicists confirm that light has two identities that are impossible to see at once. (Nanowerk News) MIT physicists have performed an idealized version of one of the most famous experiments in quantum ...

Researchers have finally resolved a century-old debate over the famous "double slit" experiment, according to new research.

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 ...