Since its development 100 years ago, quantum mechanics has revolutionized our understanding of nature, revealing a bizarre ...

Their results, published in Science Advances, show that the properties of the photon’s source influence its wave and particle character – a discovery that complicates and challenges the common ...

Quantum objects are notoriously shifty. Take the photon, for example. The quantum of light can act as a particle one moment, following a well-defined path like a tiny projectile, and a wave the ...

Particle or wave? Chinese researchers used a modified version of the delayed-choice experiment (illustrated) to capture a photon morphing between wave and particle.

Measurements retroactively force photons to be both wave and particle Temporal order and identity both get confused in the quantum world.

The goal was to catch the photon in a paradox: acting like a wave when it should’ve been acting like a particle, or vice versa.

With the photon model, a brighter light just produces more photons per second. Is light a particle or a wave? Most texts end with something like this: “Is light a particle or a wave?

In a sense, then, a photon or any other quantum object acts like both a particle and a wave. This ‘wave–particle duality’ embodies many of the central conceptual mysteries of quantum ...

Disentangling the wave-particle duality in the double-slit experiment Photons act like they go through two paths, even when we know which they took.

This has been a cornerstone of quantum mechanics, demonstrating the particle-wave nature of light and matter. Light shone on the double slit will interact and form an interference pattern on a screen.