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 ...

In their new book, From Spinors to Supersymmetry, Herbi Dreiner, Howard Haber and Stephen Martin describe the two-component ...

A century ago, physics had its Darwinian moment — a change in perspective that was as consequential for the physical sciences as the theory of evolution by natural selection was for biology.

For example: physics traditionally tells us that all particles can be classified into one of two types, either bosons or ...

Albert Einstein’s special theory of relativity, which explains what happens when things move very fast – to create what are known as quantum field theories. Three different quantum field ...

The quantum and gravitational theory group works on a wide range of topics in theoretical physics, from string theory to quantum information, condensed matter, and cosmology.

Many incompletely understood phenomena lurk in the borderlands between physical theories - between classical and quantum, between rays and waves ... of a charged particle acquires a phase shift due to ...

Quantum physics is a very diverse field: it describes particle collisions shortly after the Big Bang as well as electrons in solid materials or atoms far out in space. But not all quantum objects are ...

Science is always looking for more computing power and more efficient tools capable of answering its questions. Quantum ...

Instead, quantum theory is tweaked to account for intrinsic ... Professor Sougato Bose, an expert in the field who was not involved in the recent UCL announcement but had previously proposed ...