University of Central Florida College of Optics and Photonics researchers achieved the first observation of de Broglie-Mackinnon wave packets by exploiting a loophole in a 1980s-era laser physics ...

This week marks the centenary of the French physicist Louis de Broglie's doctoral thesis, which later earned him a Nobel prize for "his discovery of the wave nature of electrons." This discovery ...

Dark matter may be a quantum mechanical wave that literally holds galaxies together. Quantum mechanics is our best theory of the fundamental nature of reality, but it's usually only distinguishable ...

Degenerate quantum gases arise when ultracold atomic vapours occupy quantum states whose thermal de Broglie wavelength exceeds the mean interparticle spacing. In Bose–Einstein condensates (BECs) ...