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A century of quantum mechanics

This month we celebrate the first 100 years of quantum mechanics with an issue full of content exploring the past, present and future of the field.

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  • Denise Völker, Head of Sustainability at DESY, shares how a dedicated sustainability office can lead the way in cutting the environmental impact of a big science facility.

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  • In 1973, Philip Anderson published a paper introducing the resonating valence bond state, which can be recognized in retrospect as a topologically ordered phase of matter — one that cannot be classified in the conventional way according to its patterns of spontaneously broken symmetry. Steven Kivelson and Shivaji Sondhi reflect on the impact of this paper over the past 50 years.

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  • 75 years ago Richard Feynman developed a new approach to non-relativistic quantum mechanics: the path integral formulation.

    • Alison Wright
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  • Dmitry Krotov discusses recent theoretical advances in Hopfield networks and their broader impact in the context of energy-based neural architectures.

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  • One hundred years ago, Louis de Broglie posed a question: could matter particles behave like waves? This duality was already known for light; extending it to electrons and indeed all matter had huge implications, especially for the development of quantum mechanics.

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