While mathematics may be viewed as an abstract creation, its origins lie in the physical world. The need to count animals and share food supplies led to the development of the concept of numbers. With ...

A MATHEMATICIAN from the University of the Philippines Diliman (UPD) and his Norwegian colleague have developed a new framework to understand complex mathematical operators crucial to quantum ...

Quantum systems can interact with one another and with their surroundings in ways that are fundamentally different from those of their classical counterparts. In a quantum sensor, the particularities ...

Long before quantum mechanics existed, a scientist developed a powerful way of describing motion by drawing an analogy between particles and light.