Textbooks give strange, imprecise explanations of where things happen in quantum mechanics. Consistency with gravity needs a fresh approach.

Quantum Entanglement is the biggest mystery of science that could upend life as we know it, writes Satyen K. Bordoloi.

Leading experimentalists have provided lectures on the up-to-date experimental evidence confirming these paradoxical features of the quantum world, such as quantum non-locality (demonstrated ...

Quantum mechanics is perhaps the most unintuitive theory ever devised. And yet it’s also the most successful, in terms of sheer predictive power. Simply by following the math of quantum ...

Towards an Ontology for Quantum Field Theory, Philosophy of Science, Vol. 66, Supplement. Proceedings of the 1998 Biennial Meetings of the Philosophy of Science Association.

Quantum field theory marries the ideas of other quantum theories to depict all particles as “excitations” that arise in underlying fields. The British physicist Paul Dirac started the ball ...

All the latest science news on quantum field theory from Phys.org. Find the latest news, advancements, and breakthroughs.

The quantum field theory framework needed some adjustment for Borinsky and Vogtmann to get the right count. For instance, in quantum field theory, two graphs that are mirror images of each other are ...

Visualization of a quantum field theory calculation showing virtual particles in the quantum vacuum. (Specifically, for the strong interactions.) Even in empty space, this vacuum energy is non-zero.

First of all, the prevailing quantum theory, quantum field theory, is fully relativistic from the onset. Relativity is “built into” the theory, so to speak. And it’s the only quantum theory ...

The theory failed to unite gravity and quantum mechanics. But it still has become one of the most useful tools in science.