Quantum mechanics is the best tool we have to understand ... While it’s tempting to imagine that these interactions obey the laws of physics that we’re familiar with in our everyday lives ...

Traditional exams A new research-based conceptual assessment (the colorado classical mechanics/Math methods Instrument, or CCMI). This instrument is still under development. It is not included in the ...

But to understand how things work in the real world, quantum mechanics must be combined with other elements of physics – principally, Albert Einstein’s special theory of relativity ...

If we had, our most successful theory, quantum mechanics, which describes a reality governed by wholly peculiar waves of probability, would be buried in the trash bin of physics. As Nobel laureate ...

See the Research section for more details. [January 2025] Qiwei Yu won the Best Poster Award at the Gordon Research Conference on Stochastic Physics in Biology. [September 2024] Hongbo Zhao became an ...

A complete theoretical understanding of many simple problems in quantum physics is still lacking, especially when entanglement is involved. Now the full set of possible observations has been ...