A recent study published in an online issue of Physical Review Research examines the connections between the different properties of light, specifically pertaining to whether light acts as a wave or ...

"These single atoms are like the smallest slits you could possibly build." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. For over 100 years, ...

Photons are particles of light, or waves, or something like that, right? [Mithuna Yoganathan] explains this conundrum in more detail than you probably got in your high school physics class. While ...

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

Quantum physics is the realm of the strange. And one of the strangest discoveries in the field is also one of the most fundamental: Particles fired at barriers with two slits in them can act like ...

In today’s SISOFBDRU (stuff I shared on Facebook but don’t really understand) news, we have the very first photograph of “light as both a particle and wave,” pictured above. And woah, how PLUR (look ...

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, ...