Read article 'Quantum simulators in high-energy physics'
Enrique Rico Ortega and Sofia Vallecorsa explain how quantum computing will allow physicists to model complex dynamics, from black-hole evaporation to neutron-star interiors.
Read article 'Four ways to interpret quantum mechanics'
Carlo Rovelli describes the major schools of thought on how to make sense of a purely quantum world.
Read article 'The minimalism of many worlds'
David Wallace argues for the ‘decoherent view’ of quantum mechanics, where at the fundamental level there is neither probability nor wavefunction collapse.
Read article 'Do muons wobble faster than expected?'
With a new measurement imminent, the Courier explores the experimental results and theoretical calculations used to predict ‘muon g-2’ – one of particle physics’ most precisely known qu...
Read article 'The beauty of falling'
Kurt Hinterbichler reviews Claudia de Rham's first-hand and personal glimpse into the life of a theoretical physicist and the process of discovery.
Read article 'Charm and synthesis'
Sheldon Glashow recalls the events surrounding a remarkable decade of model building and discovery between 1964 and 1974.
Read article 'Rapid developments in precision predictions'
Achieving a theoretical uncertainty of only a few per cent in the measurement of physical observables is a vastly challenging task in the complex environment of hadronic collisions.
Read article 'From spinors to supersymmetry'
In their new book, From Spinors to Supersymmetry, Herbi Dreiner, Howard Haber and Stephen Martin describe the two-component formalism of spinors and its applications to particle physics, quantum field...
Read article 'Shifting sands for muon g–2'
Two recent results may ease the tension between theory and experiment.
Read article 'Inside pentaquarks and tetraquarks'
Marek Karliner and Jonathan Rosner ask what makes tetraquarks and pentaquarks tick, revealing them to be at times exotic compact states, at times hadronic molecules and at times both – with much sti...
