Light has always been the stage on which quantum mechanics performs its strangest tricks, and the double-slit experiment is ...

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The double slit experiment reveals that observing light changes its behavior, making it act as both a wave and a particle.

A persistent group of scientists at the University of Warsaw have accomplished the impossible by creating a hologram of a solitary particle of light, reports Business Insider.

Light’s dual nature, manifesting as both wave-like and particle-like behaviour, is a phenomenon known as wave-particle duality and remains one of the most perplexing mysteries in quantum mechanics.

Physicists use a 350-year-old theorem that explains the workings of pendulums and planets to reveal new properties of light waves. Since the 17th century, when Isaac Newton and Christiaan Huygens ...

Researchers have used a 350-year-old theorem to better understand the strange nature of light. The team took a theorem used for describing pendulums and substituted the brightness of light in for what ...

Artist's impression of single photons' behavior when passing through an interferometer having a quantum beam-splitter at its output. In the back of the picture, sinusoidal oscillations are observed, ...