The Quantum Theory of Fields

The Quantum Theory of Fields

Cambridge Core - Theoretical Physics and Mathematical Physics - The Quantum Theory of Fields

It is the time of the great quantum physicists: Einstein, Schrödinger, Bohr and Co. And in between a woman: Grete Hermann.

For decades, scientists have believed that quantum phenomena – the bizarreness of physics where a particle can be in several states at a time – could only exist under extremely cold conditions, close to absolute zero. But a team of researchers has just shaken this certainty by succeeding in [...]