The Irish mathematician and physicist William Rowan Hamilton, who was born 220 years ago last month, is famous for carving ...

In 1931, Harvey Elliott White developed a device that traced out the shapes of electron clouds by approximating solutions to ...

A survey of Scientific American’s century of quantum coverage helps explain the enduring popularity of strange physics ...

While William Rowan Hamilton isn’t a household name like, say, Einstein or Hawking, he might have been. It turns out the ...

Trapping ultracold atoms with laser light let researchers magnify and then image the wave functions of atoms that were ...

Quantum mechanics continues to offer profound insights into the fundamental nature of matter and energy, and the use of special functions plays a critical role in obtaining exact analytical solutions ...

Why is quantum mechanics important? We are used to seeing the world at the macroscopic level. Our eye does not perceive what is really there at its microscopic level, and (maybe) it is better that way ...

Quantum mechanics is one of the most successful theories in science — and makes much of modern life possible. Technologies ranging from computer chips to medical-imaging machines rely on the ...

Nvidia's state-of-the art semiconductor chips helped to kick off the current wave of generative AI applications, such as OpenAI's ChatGPT. Its latest chip technology, called Blackwell, is pushing the ...