It is now one hundred years ago that Albert Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the photoelectric effect. The jury had not yet really understood his revolutionary ...

It was one of the crucial experiments in quantum physics: when light falls on certain materials, ... The photoelectric effect plays an important role in many technical fields, ...

When light hits a material, electrons can be released from this material – the photoelectric effect. ... “And this is where quantum physics comes into play,” explains Rist.

Albert Einstein may be most famous for his theories of relativity, but he bagged the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics for his work on the photoelectric effect. Einstein had worked out why light incident ...

Max Planck really got the ball rolling for quantum physics by introducing the idea of energy coming in tiny packets, or ...

Quantum state of photoelectrons measured for the first time. Lund University. Journal Nature Photonics DOI 10.1038/s41566-024-01607-8 ...

But while there is still no quantum theory of gravity, the challenge of detecting its signatures now looks a little more manageable thanks to a proposed experiment that takes inspiration from the ...

Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials (ISEM) has addressed a 40-year-old quantum puzzle, unlocking a new ...