Scientists at the University of California, Riverside are making breakthroughs in understanding how quantum wave functions move across ultra-thin materials—research that could eventually improve solar ...

Does quantum mechanics really reflect nature in its truest form, or is it just our imprecise way of describing the weird properties of the very small? A famous test that can help answer this question ...

One of the discoveries that fundamentally distinguished the emerging field of quantum physics from classical physics was the observation that matter behaves differently at the smallest scales. A key ...

From the vantage point of quantum physics, the universe may in some ways be fundamentally unknowable. In quantum physics, every object, such as an electron, is matched to a mathematical formula called ...

Scientists are unsure what drives wave function collapse in the quantum world, but according to some radical theories, gravity may play a role. Scientists determined that if those theories are true, ...

Nathaniel Gabor is a professor of physics and astronomy at UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Scientists at the University of California, Riverside are making breakthroughs in understanding how ...