Part of our International Year of Quantum Science and Technology coverage More than 300 top quantum physicists gathered ...

According to scientific legend, quantum mechanics was born on the island of Helgoland in 1925. A hundred years later, ...

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In 1935, Austrian-born physicist Erwin Schrödinger described a thought experiment that magnified a glaring problem at the heart of quantum mechanics. To this day, the problem remains, summed up ...

"Schrödinger also assumed a living — i.e., 'hot' — cat in his thought experiment," study co-author Gerhard Kirchmair, a physicist at the University of Innsbruck in Austria, said in a ...

Troubled times After an unhappy three years in Oxford starting in 1933, Erwin Schrödinger returned to Austria and is shown here in 1937 with a car belonging to German physicist Max von Laue. (Courtesy ...

Schrödinger's cat is a seemingly paradoxical thought experiment devised by Erwin Schrödinger that attempts to illustrate the incompleteness of an early interpretation of quantum mechanics when ...

In 1935, quantum physicist Erwin Schrödinger suggested a controversial thought experiment to highlight the paradoxical nature of time in quantum mechanics. 1 In the experiment, he supposed that ...

Erwin Schroedinger proposed a new atomic model that dispensed with orbits in favor of energy levels. It still shares some similar concepts with the Bohr model. For instance, ...

In February 1943, Erwin Schrödinger, quantum physicist and Nobel laureate (sharing his prize with Paul Dirac and Werner Heisenberg), gave a series of lectures at Trinity College Dublin, which later ...