Irrational numbers have underpinned quantum mechanics for a century. Removing them could eliminate its strangest features and ...

A team of German physicists has built a fully working version of quantum mechanics that uses only real numbers. Complex ...

With potentially billions of dollars of government funding (and profit) at stake in the race to build functional quantum computers, there’s a massive hype machine to match. Last week Senate Majority ...

Physicists from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) have examined a fundamental property of quantum mechanics in collaboration with the German Aerospace Center (DLR). In an article published in ...

Randomness is incredibly useful. People often draw straws, throw dice or flip coins to make fair choices. Random numbers can enable auditors to make completely unbiased selections. Randomness is also ...

For the first time, physicists have built a working version of quantum mechanics without complex numbers — numbers that have been considered essential to the theory for nearly a century. Complex ...

A new facility in Queensland will allow researchers from academia and industry to test new ideas on a real quantum processor.

Electron microscopes are used wherever particularly small details need to be imaged. But from a strictly physical point of ...