Quantum Mechanics

latest news & developments

High-dimensional quantum code cracker: ‘I can observe all these fundamental properties of quantum mechanics with simple lasers,’ says Dr Isaac Nape in his Wits lab. (Ihsaan Haffejee)

Savvy scientist’s quantum leap

Dr Isaac Nape from Wits University is getting accolades from scientists in the field of quantum optics for his team’s groundbreaking technique

Adrian Ephraim

Instead of harnessing the bizarre laws of the quantum world to hold a hapless bacterium in limbo

Microbe to be in two places at once

Physicists have drawn up plans to put a living organism in two places at once in a radical demonstration of quantum theory.

Ian Sample