Electrostatics and electrodynamics together describe the behaviour of electric charges, fields and their interaction with matter over both static and time‐varying regimes. In electrostatics, ...

Using a newly developed technique, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics (MPIK) in Heidelberg have measured the very small difference in the magnetic properties of two isotopes of ...

Quantum electrodynamics, a school of quantum mechanics, is the best-tested theory in physics. It describes all electrical and magnetic interactions of light and matter. In the macroscopic world, ...

Quantum electrodynamics (QED) in the presence of ultra-intense laser fields explores the behaviour of charged particles and the quantum vacuum under electromagnetic intensities approaching or ...

The start of World War II threw quantum theory research into disarray. Many of the European physicists left Europe all together, and research moved across the ocean to the shores of the United States.

Simulation of quantum chemistry has become one of the killer applications of quantum computers. In recent years, Google, IBM, and other IT companies have been engineering better and better ...

A team from Adolfo Ibáñez University and Columbia University has identified 'frozen-in' geometric structures in spacetime that remain preserved as it evolves, echoing principles from plasma physics.

For the last 80 years, the theory of quantum electrodynamics (QED), which describes all electromagnetic interactions, has been a cornerstone of the standard model, withstanding the scrutiny of ...

The fundamental laws of physics are based on symmetries that, among other things, determine the interactions between charged particles. Using ultracold atoms, researchers have experimentally ...