(Phys.org) —The Schrödinger's Cat thought experiment, published in 1926 by Erwin Schrödinger, may be the most widely-known metaphorical explanation of quantum superposition and collapse.

A team of scientists finds a way to evaluate highly complex Feynman integrals. How does the world look like at the smallest scales? This is a question scientists are trying to answer in particle ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

“We followed a new mathematical path, the cluster algebras”, says Johannes Henn, director at the Max Planck Institute for Physics. Cluster algebras were discovered in the early 2000s. They consist of ...

In what has to be one of the clearest abstracts ever written, Richard Feynman put it simply thus: “Non-relativistic quantum mechanics is formulated here in a different way. It is, however, ...